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...Estrada's predecessor, Fidel Ramos, only to see it wasted by Estrada's erratic leadership. "This is a signal to the international community that the Philippines now has a strong and firm leadership that adheres to the rule of law," says Finance Secretary Alberto Romulo. Translation: Brother, can you spare a billion...
...schools, Parker says, are sacrificing important lessons in science, social studies and foreign languages to focus on concepts that will be tested. High school biology students no longer dissect frogs. "I can't spare two weeks for that," says teacher Steffany LaBree. A U.S. history teacher doesn't assign research papers because they don't help him prepare students for state-mandated tests. The town's educators say they don't oppose accountability. Many of them prefer the method adopted by states such as Vermont, in which independent reviewers assess portfolios of student work. Many educators also oppose harsh consequences...
...London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands. That argument persists, of course...
...sustained effort to engage in substantive discussion with the student body. Summers has already stated that he will hold office hours, but he must do so more frequently than Rudenstine; an hour a week for conversing with students is not too much time for a university president to spare. Additionally, Summers must continue dialoguing with student groups, but he must do so on a proactive, rather than a retroactive basis. A president that actively engages in soliciting students’ concerns rather than stamping out the fires caused by University stonewalling will go much further in creating an environment...
Jung Woo Suk likes nothing better than to sit down with some cool Japanese animation or a new Japanese-made video game. Jung, who graduated from a top university in Seoul last year, now runs a website for a computer magazine. But whenever he has spare time, he sits down with his PlayStation or his computer and plays video games -- Dragonquest 7, Black Matrix Cross and Super Robot War are among his favorites. When he feels like watching some animation, one of his top choices is a series by a Japanese team called Gonzo. It was shown on television...