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...Japanese learn to compete early in life. Starting with kindergarten, they run a brutal educational gauntlet that gradually separates winners from losers. Young Japanese who join large corporations learn to set aside that kind of competitiveness in favor of cooperation and consensus. Members of the team share information and skills for the greater good of the company. As a result, the workplace becomes like a harmonious home...
This isolation is doubtless intensified by the lunatic extremes of the Kim cult and the Juche Idea, a somewhat opaque notion that stresses that the masses are the agents of revolution and man is master of everything. The result is government by total mobilization. Kindergarten children march, singing, to school; construction workers march, singing, to work. The Muscovite subway stations, all marble and murals, offer glass-framed copies of the party daily, Rodong Sinmun, on every platform. Meanwhile, at the Mansudae Art Theater, a multimillion-dollar showpiece groaning with chandeliers, the revolutionary opera Song of Paradise climaxes with the cast...
...Italic Handwriting Series of textbooks by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay of Portland, Ore., both teachers as well as enthusiastic calligraphers. Published by Portland State University, the eight-book series was adopted last month by the Portland school board as the official text for handwriting instruction from kindergarten through eighth grade. State education officials have approved the discretionary use of the Getty/ Dubay books for all Oregon public schools...
...covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care of a United Nations relief agency. Elsewhere, Norwegian and Austrian relief workers have supplied materials to residents for rebuilding their homes and opened a clinic and a kindergarten on the site of similar facilities formerly operated by one of the more militant Palestine Liberation Organization groups...
...Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...