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...Kirch empire?s main arms, KirchMedia already holds a 53.5% stake in ProSiebenSat.1, and is expected to merge with that company should a planned stockmarket float go ahead later this year. But another subgroup, KirchBeteiligungs, holds a 40% interest in Axel Springer. Why would Kirch permit a company in which it has such a sizable stake to cause it so much potential inconvenience? One theory is that the Springer family wants to reacquire shares in their company that Kirch bought in the late 1980s during a failed takeover attempt, and are exercising the "put" option as an arm-twisting tactic...
...Senate took the opposite approach. The test scores of each subgroup of students (blacks, latinos, low-income kids) are required to improve just 1% per year-hardly an attempt to leave no child behind. And states are allowed to average the performances of the subgroups-and therefore mask weak minority test scores beneath the high scores of white or wealthy students. This lowering of the bar was partly due to pressure from the 22 Republican governors up for reelection next year who don't want the federal government labeling their schools as failures...
...Psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow, director of the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research in Stockbridge, Mass., notes that a significant subgroup of the school shooters consists of kids who come from relatively affluent families, who are academically above average, if not gifted, and who rarely have the qualities expected of violent offenders--such as a history of substance abuse or mental disorder. In Twemlow's view, this is no coincidence. "Bullying is more common in affluent schools probably than in the low-income schools," he says. It is spurred, he believes, by "the dynamics that come...
Conflicting interpretations are expected given the ambitious nature of the project: to adapt the universal theme of emigration to the Yugoslav émigré audience, with each different socio-economic and educational subgroup having its own specific émigré dilemmas. Although each audience responds to the play in a unique way, “people react almost uniformly in self-recognition,” says Lausevic. Be it recognition or denial, sympathy, humor or sorrow, the audience is left with a strong emotional experience...
...page document done in the style of actual blueprints that outlined how the Bush plan would support the family from cradle to grave. There was nothing subtle about it: on nearly every page was a picture of a woman, each one from a different walk of life, state, demographic subgroup. It looked like an advertising campaign for a new kind of Volvo or cellular phone. Bush's travel was coordinated that week to reach Midwestern swing-state women, just as it was later when "Agenda for the Greatest Generation" wrapped the candidate's senior-friendly message in a briefing book...