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...blogosphere is ablaze with news leaks about the BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale in November. But the stories, which are long on gigabytes, megapixels and other technobabble, give almost no idea of what this new phone is actually like to use. Most notably, they overlook a breakthrough design element that sets the Storm apart from every other iPhone wannabe: its entire 3.2-in. touchscreen doubles as a big clickable button...
...Murray is among just a handful of public intellectuals who are willing to talk openly about these statistics. Most remain fearful, because such a suggestion is so counter to our feel-good conceptions of social mobility. But there is nothing about this evidence that should make us uncomfortable. The idea that there would be a correlation between class and intelligence is completely consistent with the dream of American opportunity because it reinforces this sense that our idealized, meritocratic society is working. There is nothing shocking about the notion that people who are capable would rise to high-paying jobs...
...society of free spirits, where fashion is a legitimate and oft-used mode of expression, the idea of a school—nevertheless a public school—mandating that students wear uniforms may at first appear ludicrous. Yet that’s precisely what Hartford, Conn. has required of its public school students. While the imposition of uniforms on public school students is often viewed as a limitation on the freedom of expression and the creativity of our nation’s youth, uniforms are in fact intended to help struggling schools and students foster a sense of academic...
...bailout plan was no less necessary, says Schmidt. Such a plan would have triggered a backlash in Germany against the E.U., egged on by the ready arguments of the anti-Europe German press that Germans were paying to bail out other Europeans, he says. "It would have destroyed the idea of European integration," he says...
...Although the idea of an African renaissance of good governance and economic development had been championed by the likes of South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki and other veterans of the struggle to end white rule on the continent, Farhan argues that it's precisely because the liberation-era movements are on the wane - as South Africa's African National Congress seemed to be last week, amid a very public schism - that governance is improving. "Those movements used to say, We have the right to stay in power because we are a liberation movement," she says. Across the continent...