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...Really? Lift all public-service strictures from British broadcasting and what would remain? North argues that the élite would find a way to ensure that the sorts of programs they enjoy continue to be made. Andy Duncan, chief executive of Channel 4, disagrees, and vehemently. "There would be a huge reduction in the quality of television in this country. If people had a profit motive only there'd be less investment in content, particularly in some of the areas where quite clearly the market wouldn't provide as much...
...embarking on a successful career as an artist. (Chan's apartment is decorated with her mother's ink-brush paintings, and some of her mother's steely resolve seems to have rubbed off too.) Although she trained to become a social worker, Chan joined the government as an élite administrative cadet and enjoyed a 39-year career, marred only by a heavily criticized decision to separate a child from an apparently unstable mother - made while Chan was Director of Social Welfare in 1986 - and the bungled opening of Hong Kong's new airport in 1998, which Chan had been...
...class members come from countries across the Middle East, but although there are no Westerners now, the school hopes to eventually attract students from the U.S. - or even Israel - and about one-third of the student body will receive financial aid. This is a far cry from most élite high schools in Jordan today, which are more like an Arab Beverly Hills 90210 - wealthy kids leading insular lives...
...ways it is far less diverse than in the past. All the Justices were promoted from the federal courts of appeals. Most of them have backgrounds as law-school professors or as veterans of the intellectual realms of the Justice Department--the Solicitor General's office or the élite Office of Legal Counsel...
...exploits as an Air Force pilot in the Pacific during World War II included 219 combat missions; he counted among his myriad awards an honorary title from the Queen of England. But Major General John (Jock) Henebry was best known as a member of the Grim Reapers, an élite group who mastered a dangerous but accurate technique called "skip bombing" that required flying low enough to make bombs skip along the surface of the water before hitting a ship. Among the missions he led: a bloody assault on the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul, New Britain Island, that became...