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...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 began accepting civilian students, offering undergraduate degrees in business, accounting and economics, among other subjects. But in November, civilian students learned that the degrees they were paying for were not recognized by Beijing's Ministry of Education. Chinese employers typically will not even interview students from unaccredited universities. When word...
...would confuse Hefei Artillery Academy with Peking or Tsinghua universities, the Harvard and MIT of China. Yet parents had to pay about $1,250 in annual tuition plus a $5,400 "special fee" just to get their child into the academy. In a poor province like Anhui, that's serious money. Nor was the incident in Hefei isolated. Over the past two years, students attending at least four other colleges across China have rioted, claiming to have been misled about the degrees they were supposed to receive...
...what happens to those poor guys who qualified for the Olympics but got supplanted by NBA stars for the real Games? Cruel but necessary. This is an arms race. Plus, have you seen those Chinese sports schools? Next to them, this strategy is saintly...
...Ossetians come and take everything." A neighbor and grandfather who was sitting in the street when the looters came raised his arm and was shot dead. "We could not bury him," Maria Kharbegashvili, 49, says. Her harvest of apples and peaches will rot on the trees. "We are poor now! Nobody thinks about us. They play big politics, but nobody cares about ordinary people...
Still, Thaksin remained popular with the rural poor, who make up a majority of Thailand's electorate, and in December 2007 they voted in a government led by a party widely considered to be a proxy of the ousted prime minister. In February 2008, Thaksin returned to Thailand, kissing the tarmac at Bangkok International Airport as supporters cheered him on, and vowing to prove his innocence in court...