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...craves the red-bricked city on a hill? While both schools speak proudly of the tremendous diversity and talents of their student bodies, when it comes down to it, Homo crimsons is a different species from the Homo eli down south. The former stands one rung higher on the ladder of self-motivation...
Climbing the Ladder...
This thesis is hardly new--Vietnam has long been seen as the lesson that taught reporters to stop automatically believing government handouts--but Prochnau illustrates it in fresh, interesting ways. He recaptures the days when Saigon was still considered a journalistic backwater, a low rung on the promotion ladder for ambitious reporters. And he describes in considerable detail the reporters who arrived there in the early 1960s, particularly Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times...
...Black Coffee" aims to look realistically at relationships among people stalled at the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. In this vein, it usually succeeds. Matteau does not shove any moral platitudes into her characters' mouths, and she manages to make the main characters interesting in only ten short scenes...
...training just to restore the average male high school dropout's 1989 earnings to the level of 1979. Still, some economists see cause to give the idea a chance, if on a smaller scale. Germany, where real wages have been rising even at the bottom of the income ladder, spends three times as much for each worker on labor-market training as the U.S., according to Stephen Nickell at Oxford. And Germany's secondary school vocational track is finely geared to the job market. "Germany spends a much larger proportion of its educational budget to raise the skills...