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...that parents can afford to take such risks with their children, drawing time away from chasing numeric success and instead encouraging creativity. In India, if a parent is to pay for his son’s college tuition, that child must choose a path that ensures a secure and set future—not “the arts” And there is little by way of encouraging participation in extracurriculars. Time is better spent in the classroom or preparing for tests...
...learning, conformity, and standardization. It is an assembly-line approach in an industrializing country to produce not only goods, but its human investments as well. The most popular fields are the pigeonhole ones—with outsourced jobs waiting at the end, positions lacking creativity and advancement but with set pay and an accompanying glass ceiling...
Corey Welford, a spokesman for the District Attorney's office, said that a definitive date has not been set for Aquino's arraignment at the Cambridge District Court, but added that it could happen as soon as Monday...
...return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face charges and is currently jailed without bail in New York, was indicted Thursday by a Middlesex grand jury on the same charges as Aquino, allowing his case to be heard in Middlesex Superior Court. An arraignment date for Jiggetts has not yet been set, and Welford said that prosecutors are continuing to seek a governor's warrant, which requires the signatures of both the Massachusetts and New York governors, to extradite Jiggetts...
...White House set this pattern of legislative compromise and public celebration early on. During the debate over the stimulus bill, which passed just weeks after Obama took office, the President and his advisers deferred significantly to Congress to both shape and size the bill. In the end, the legislation was trimmed to $787 billion, with about $70 billion going to a temporary fix of the Alternative Minimum Tax, an annual adjustment with little stimulative impact...