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...achievements of his students. In Clark's case the record is mixed. No question that he cleaned up the graffiti, kicked out the pushers, restored order. But academic triumphs have been more elusive. While math scores are up 6% during Clark's reign, reading scores have barely budged: they remain in the bottom third of the nation's high school seniors. While a few more students are going to college -- 211, up from 182 in 1982 -- Clark has lost considerable ground in the battle against dropouts: when he arrived, Eastside's rate...
...refugee camps for 40 years. Some of the youngsters in these camps work in Israel for subsistence wages; others are unemployed or underemployed. The more prosperous West Bank is more economically independent. For example, it carries on a thriving agricultural trade with Jordan, of which West Bank residents remain citizens. Only 15% of the 800,000 West Bank denizens are refugees, and even fewer live in refugee camps...
...struggle for the same cherished rocks and hills. Israelis and Palestinians, except for the extremists among them, know that only a political compromise can end the agony. But neither side possesses the courage to begin. And so the Palestinians seem destined to continue futilely flinging stones, while the Israelis remain committed to fighting back with bullets. And time keeps slipping away...
Though the power of back-room bosses has been broken, other factions and interest groups manipulate the rules for their own benefit. What should be a deliberative search for candidates of heft becomes a demeaning marathon. What should help unify the party becomes a divisive struggle. Talented leaders remain on the sidelines rather than confront the Kafkaesque process. Long before voters focus on the people and issues involved, the dynamics of the nominating cycle are established on the basis of "expectations" and "momentum," with the press in charge of calibrating the standards. It is, in the words of Congressman Morris...
...along with almost everything else in Taiwanese life, is overshadowed by the pivotal question of the country's future relations with the mainland Communist regime, which still claims the island as a province. Clearly concerned that Taiwan's new leadership may lack Chiang's adamant belief that the island remain a part of China, Beijing's leaders went out of their way to pay tribute to the late President. Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang noted approvingly that Chiang "had upheld a 'one- China' policy." Taiwan's geopolitical status is also a matter of concern for Washington, which ceased to recognize...