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Because the author was a would-be Madoff whistle-blower, you might expect his anger to be pointed at the Ponzi king. In fact, the unrelenting Markopolos aims it at the Securities and Exchange Commission. For 10 years, the author, a quantitative analyst, tried unsuccessfully to convince the agency that...
By contrast, homeschooling is legal in all 50 U.S. states, some of which don't require families to notify authorities of their intent to teach their children at home. Tennessee is among the states that require some form of notice as well as periodic assessment tests.
Re "Why Crime Went Away" [Feb. 22]: Legally armed Americans use their firearms to stop a crime in progress more than 2 million times a year. Most of these incidents involve no shooting. The increase in the number of states offering concealed-weapons permits to qualified citizens is a factor...
The legacy of Zheng's voyages - involving hundreds of ships, some exponentially larger than the three captained by Christopher Columbus decades later, in 1492 - is being invoked by the Chinese as historical proof of the difference between China's and the West's roles in the world. Though the unprecedented...
In recent years, though, Beijing has come under criticism for an approach to Africa that is perhaps more bloodless than it is cuddly. China's support of autocratic regimes, from Zimbabwe to Sudan - where Beijing effectively built up an oil industry from scratch - has exposed the Asian giant to accusations...