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...looked smart again when Chinese banks decided to clear their pile of non-performing loans off the books as a first step to steadying the wobbly financial system. Anticipating a dealmaking frenzy, Chao and his team did their homework before potential buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Ariz., he led three lawyers from China...
...Average amount of time kids spend each day on computers (not counting homework), up from...
...quarter of a century had passed, after grad school at Yale and a rise to the chair of Harvard’s physics department, that he would realize that women needed some help. And the problem wasn’t that they couldn’t do their homework. “What caught me were statistics that our female undergrads were miserable,” he says. The few women in physics classes who “hadn’t yet been driven away” were being ignored. Women were left out of study groups, and there...
...equal time with each parent after separation - the holy grail of many lobbyists in both Australia and New Zealand. A presumption of shared time would demolish the premise that, during the week, older children need a stable base from which to travel to and from school and do their homework. Arguments about whether equal time was fairer or even practical (for many separated parents and their children it is a logistical nightmare) were a distraction, the inquiry found, from the "primary issue": ensuring that both parents could and would stay involved in their children's lives...
...Members of Congress could use a little primer too, say White House aides, who believe that elected officials wouldn't freeze behind the microphone if they did their homework a little more diligently. ?The members need to get up to speed,? admitted Rep. Mike Oxley of Ohio. But the ?education? better happen soon...