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...despite its excesses, the CSAT is compellingly meritocratic. Rich students and poor students alike get to compete for the same lucrative prize and are judged by the same measure. The best example of this is the South Korean president, Lee Myung-Bak. Lee grew up as the penniless son of an agricultural laborer but he aced the CSAT, got into Korea University, and was vaulted into a sphere of job opportunities completely beyond the reach of his father. Sure, wealthy students have access to more personal tutoring and highly rated cram schools, but with hard academic work, every Korean...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Testing Up | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...intentions of Israel's leaders came under further question last week, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father, the historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, told an Israeli TV interviewer that he had been told by his son that he did not support the creation of a Palestinian state. Despite Benjamin Netanyahu's having accepted the goal in principle under pressure from Washington, his father said the Prime Minister had done so only on the basis of conditions that were impossible for the Palestinians to ever accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Jewish Concerns, Obama Keeps Up Pressure on Israel | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...that GLAAD staffers had seen an early cut of the film, and "unfortunately, the scenes that we had the biggest concerns about remained in the film," including one of Brüno having S&M sex with his male assistant and another of Brüno holding his infant son in a hot tub with other adult males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Brüno a One-Day Wonder? | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...want to make this statement. This is a real good statement here: Marshall and I--we own a record company.' JOE JACKSON, plugging his new business venture during an interview about the death of his son, pop icon Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...health-care-reform activist.) Jada Pinkett Smith also plays an overworked nurse taking on bureaucracy, on TNT's Hawthorne. On NBC's fall drama Trauma (not to be confused with CBS's Miami Trauma), a supervisor warns a paramedic not to let a mother assist with her son's emergency tracheotomy: "It's a lawsuit waiting to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POTUS TV: Paging Dr. Obama | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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