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...Southeast Asia crisis is just a trigger," he said. "Something would have come along at some point. This is what came along...
...mounting financial crisis in Hong Kong has ignited fears about whether global business conditions will be undermined by Southeast Asia's shaky economics, where mounting trade deficits have sent interest rates soaring and local currencies plunging...
...Where a big presentation might deal with wider, broader topics, the workshops dealt with more specialized topics in business and economics," says Abrams, who went to one workshop on turning around failing companies and another on venture capital in southeast Asia. Abrams also attended speeches by the presidents of Switzerland and Germany and ate dinner with the chief executive of Proctor and Gamble, Edwin Artze...
...College of Notre Dame who was appointed to fill the court-created post of special education administrator in Baltimore's public schools, estimates that 6,000 to 8,000 children have been inappropriately identified as disabled. John Mohamed, who until last February was principal of the city's Southeast Middle School, believes only 55 to 60 of the 160 special-ed kids at his school truly required special education. The rest, he says, just needed a little help to catch up to their peers. He calls special education "the most devastating problem" he has had to deal with...
Olson has 720 students who reflect the changing face of Minneapolis: a third of them are "European American," a third of them are African American and almost a third are Asian American--mostly Hmong from Southeast Asia. With 78% of the students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch, Olson is one of the city's poorer middle schools, but in last year's state reading tests, Olson came in third among the seven middle schools...