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...know things are very bad when a top U.S. government official admits failure. Even before he has taken the job. Last month, while still just a nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta was already warning airline passengers that this summer would outdo even the terrible summer of 2000 for awfulness. "I need to be very candid with you," he told a Senate committee. "We are likely to have similar--or worse--delay problems this year as well. We simply have an air-traffic-control system that has not been able to keep pace with rapidly rising demand...
...down a U.S. plane. Because four out of five radars lay above the 33rd parallel that marks the edge of the southern no-fly zone, they had to ask Bush for permission to attack. Friday's two-hour assault was heavier and ran closer to Baghdad than was the norm over the past two years, but it was essentially just a stronger dose of the same old policy...
...back by the time Temptation Island 3 hits TV. It's not that I doubt Smith's sincerity. I'm sure he thinks it's over. He just has yet to fully realize the truth--nobody in professional sports really retires anymore. The "amazing comeback" is now the norm, and I don't like...
...Given Hjällboskolan's diversity, Katarina and Suman's friendship might be expected to be the norm. Only 15% of Hjällboskolan's 430 students are so-called native Swedes-those with long-standing roots in the country-so you might think that most of them would, like Katarina, study alongside their immigrant peers, developing friendships along the way. Not so. Most of Hjällboskolan's classrooms and most of Gothenburg's schools are, in effect, segregated...
...first glance, the semi-isolation of the Olofstorp contingent seems an indefensibly cynical attempt to insulate them from the ethnic and racial diversity that is increasingly the norm in Sweden. Ekenberg sees it differently. "We don't segregate. We have classes that are 50% immigrant and 50% Swedish," he insists. "We try to put them together as much as we can." He says the main reason the children from Olofstorp pursue most of their studies together is the school's policy of keeping incoming classes as intact as possible, regardless of where the students hail from. That is why Katarina...