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Rhee is, as a rule, far nicer to students than to most adults. In many private encounters with officials, bureaucrats and even fundraisers--who have committed millions of dollars to help her reform the schools--she doesn't smile or nod or do any of the things most people do to put others at ease. She reads her BlackBerry when people talk to her. I have seen her walk out of small meetings held for her benefit without a word of explanation. She says things most superintendents would not. "The thing that kills me about education is that...
...rage among pundits, journalists and policymakers these days is to believe that more government is better than less. And why not? In this time of economic chaos, finance ministers and central bankers around the world have appeared the only bulwark against complete financial collapse - a slide-rule cavalry, armed with billions as bullets, rescuing banks, insurance companies and other corporate damsels in distress...
...again, because of rain—matter-of-factly citing the chance for mass electrocution. (Rumor has it that the rally was actually cancelled because people kept leaving the period off the end of Drake’s band name, “Blanks.” The rule is that, even if it appears in the middle of a sentence, Blanks. ends with a period...
...just Obama's time. You know, his stars aligned right," Davis says. "And I think he's an incredibly gifted candidate. Let's hope, and I do hope, and I hope I'm right, that he'll be a very gifted President. And I hope he'll rule from the middle. And I hope he'll, you know, be inclusive of Republicans. And if he does those things, he could be one of the great Presidents in history...
...decade of experience in China. "But every single senior officer - right down to the manager of the smallest branch in Outer Mongolia - is a Party member. And when the Party says, 'Jump,' or 'We're all in trouble,' they say, 'How high?' It's that simple." The same rule applies to state owned enterprises, which still account for about a third...