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...child is entitled to an education regardless of background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study habits...
...England's George Orwell is another essential writer, and one with whom Lu Xun shares important traits. Each introduced new terms into the political lexicon: Ah-Q-ism (a proclivity for self-delusion) is as readily understood in China as references to Big Brother are elsewhere. Each author spent most of his adult life as an independent thinker of the left, criticizing dogmatism and hypocrisy wherever it appeared on the political spectrum. Each championed plain forms of writing. And each penned an ironic novella about a revolution that claimed to be about changing everything, but ended up altering only...
...planning commission, also inside the presidency, to enforce a consistent long- term vision across government departments, with Trevor Manuel, South Africa's respected Finance Minister since 1996, at its head. Efforts are also being made to reach out to ordinary South Africans. New Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has spent nights in poor townships across the country to hear residents' concerns. Zuma himself has established a hotline to the presidency and in August gathered hundreds of school principals in Durban to answer their questions on reform. The same month, in the first of what he promises will be a series...
...Zulu" Zuma's antiapartheid "struggle" credentials are impeccable. Between 1963 and '73 he was locked up on Robben Island, where Mandela spent most of his 27 years in jail. If it is the later years on his résumé that outrage South Africa's élite - the court cases, the damaging fight with Mbeki, the three wives and 18 children - it is his early activism that makes him a natural champion for the poor...
...world has spent the past six months wondering how - and with whom - Silvio Berlusconi spends his Saturday nights. But the combative, scandal-plagued Prime Minister of Italy would prefer to talk about his mornings instead. "Do you know how I've been forced to spend my Saturday mornings since I entered politics?" Berlusconi once declared to business leaders in Rome. "With my lawyers...