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Glenn cited findings of the commission showing that through fourth grade, American school systems rank among the top 2 to 3 nations in math and science of 41 nations studied, but by graduation, America ranks among the bottom 2-3 nations...
Former President Fidel Ramos had already warned during a visit to Hong Kong earlier in the week of the danger of a "palace coup" by forces allied with Estrada. And other retired officers were already trying to condition the public and the military rank and file to accept the notion that military intervention of one kind or another was a viable option. An ad in the Philippine Daily Inquirer sponsored by the Philippine Military Academy's Class of 1962, whose president is retired General Lisandro Abadia, promised, "The AFP and the PNP will have a crucial role to play...
...with the murder of two peacenik Israeli men who'd gone with an Arab friend to a restaurant in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, before being dragged out by masked gunmen and executed. The killings left Israel's "peace camp" angry and depressed, and diminished the appetite of rank-and-file Barak supporters for pursuing an agreement with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. And whether they want it or not, after February 6 they're likely to get an effective time-out from the peace process. A time-out during which both sides will eventually remind themselves, and each...
...took the next step--into high-powered mainstream politics, sanding down Pentecostal edges as he went. The last Assemblies member to attain high government rank, President Reagan's Interior Secretary, James Watt, once let drop that "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns"--a statement exploited by foes who claimed he had no reason to preserve natural resources. Says John Green, a politics-and-religion expert at the University of Akron: "I've never heard Ashcroft say anything like that. [His electoral experience] may not have moderated the substance...
...movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such clubs in areas like Tokyo's Kabuki-cho and they vie for business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers, Japan's trend-conscious young women, a night at a host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill, of course, is somewhat sexual: the guys are attentive, hunky and dangle the possibility they might be available after...