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...trade," FlorCruz says. "China is an attractive market. Russia has a lot to offer China in terms of aircraft, military, nuclear and satellite technology." During Yeltsin's visit, the two countries are expected to sign 14 agreements, including one setting up a hot-line between Moscow and Beijing. The main goal of the summit is to improve the relationship between the two countries. "Yeltsin's visit is an attempt to put substance into the relationship," FlorCruz says. "This summit will put the relationship on a more solid basis in terms of trade, economic cooperation, border agreements, and provide more political...
...intense rote learning. But the system has become an extreme, decadent version of what it used to be. And not only do children suffer on account of the schools and cram courses, but they may not even be learning what they ought to. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the main opposition party, argues that the educational system is at the heart of Japan's difficulties because it simply forces children to memorize and solve math problems. That may have been sufficient when Japan needed nothing but obedient, selfless workers, but it does not nurture the right skills for Japan...
...testament to patience, A Fine Balance (Knopf; 603 pages; $26) is also a test of it: its first 250 pages merely introduce the four main characters and the sorrows of their pasts. Dina is a Parsi widow in her early 40s who runs a small apartment in Bombay; Maneck is a student from the mountains who takes a room with her; and Ishvar and Om are two village tailors, uncle and nephew, who long to pull themselves up from their Untouchable status. All four, with their habits of impatience and loss, hopefulness and resignation, find their lives intertwined when Indira...
Liberia's latest spasm of fighting began earlier this month. Leaders of the country's two main warring factions--who, following a peace agreement last August, had formed a new ruling council in Monrovia--announced their intention to arrest one of their own council members, Roosevelt Johnson. His followers responded by spilling into the streets, blowing up two helicopters recently donated by the U.S. and seizing hundreds of hostages, including, reportedly, at least 20 peacekeepers. Holed up in an old military base, they exchanged fire with opposing militiamen...
...April 1994, the proposal charged nobly through the Committee on Undergraduate Education only to be cruelly slain by the Faculty Council a month later. According to Fox, two main reasons for opposing the change have persisted throughout the years. The first has to do with the argument that a longer semester gives students a better learning experience because they have more time to reflect upon their classes...