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The poor quality of Chinese schools is not a state secret. Consider what happened last year at the Hefei Artillery Academy in Anhui province, a school started decades ago by the People's Liberation Army to train young military cadets in the art of war. Five years ago, the school...
Old Is the New Cool What a change from the Toyota sedans and Sony stereos that have long defined Japan Inc. Sleek as those products may be, there is something culturally anonymous about them. It's as if these brands - along with a certain animated, mouthless cat that was introduced...
For decades, Japan learned to love things foreign. By the 1980s, housewives chatted knowledgably about Cezanne or osso bucco. Novelist Haruki Murakami riffed on the cultural alienation many Japanese feel by filling his books with meditations on jazz and the Beatles. Top Japanese fashion designers decamped to Europe, while those...
Helping spread these artistic influences is a shared legacy of language. As part of his cultural upbringing, Tipoti spent time with a Torres Strait elder and linguist, the late Ephraim Bani. "Through his teaching I learned that our western island language is connected to the Cape York and northern Aboriginal...
"We're pretty excited about this," says Loren Mavromati, a homeschooling mother and president of the Hayward-based California Homeschool Network, which implored the judges on the court to reconsider their ruling. "They did pay attention; they listened, learned, read and re-evaluated their opinion," she says. "It does make...