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...What's at stake for parents is far more than simply a child's school transcript or college options; it's a child's spirit. Recently, author David Brooks spent time on the campus of Princeton University getting to know the students, and he published what he learned in a searching article in the Atlantic magazine. The students were thoroughbred products of the American educational system - gifted, disciplined, driven to succeed, with a calm but consuming focus. And, Brooks found, they were curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence...
...Still, Zackie Achmat is not expecting to die. He's hoping the drugs will be available to all South African AIDS sufferers within three years, and he thinks he can survive that long. And, of course, that gives him a deeply personal stake in winning his campaign. One South African reporter, commending Achmat on his noble stand, drew a withering response: "I don't think it's noble, I think it's dumb," Achmat answered. "But it's a conscience issue. It's not something I advocate for anyone else...
...realistic to expect the two sides to sort things out on the first or second round of talks. There's still a lot of posturing going on. It's always tough to negotiate with the Chinese, and even more so when a lot of face is at stake...
...usually preceded by months of intensive meetings at lower levels to finesse agreements and documents for the leaders to sign. If those meetings don't take place, that would be an indication that the relationship is in more trouble than we thought. There are also commercial interests at stake: If China's state-owned companies stop awarding contracts to qualified U.S. firms, that would also indicate the relationship was in peril...
...Kremlin's strategy has been to hobble NTV at the knees and then split up the Gusinsky empire, because there are journalists who need to make a living, and enough business interests at stake that people can be won over to the new Kremlin-backed management on the basis of purely economic and commercial need...