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Jiang Zemin will continue to seek his Emperor's robes. His next hope for greatness may lie outside the economic sphere, in Taiwan. "Jiang wants some kind of date for reunification. Then he will go down in history," says Andy Xie, chief economist for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. But moving mountains and changing the weather may prove easier than persuading 22 million Taiwanese that their future is best assured under Emperor Jiang. Until then, WTO may be as good as it gets for the smiling President...
Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
...treatment of research animals is understandably an area of great moral contention and is certainly worthy of an informed, rational debate within the public sphere. Yet, Justice Department's actions are counterproductive to the type of dialogue that achieves real and lasting change...
...also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
...tell. The attitudes towards homosexuality in the public sphere have trickled down, all the way down to the neatly-trimmed lawns of liberal Harvard. In this age of randomized multiculturalism, we all like to consider ourselves politically correct...