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...little satisfaction, they have sought redress through petitions in Beijing, exercising an ancient right to bypass the courts and appeal directly to the central government. Official statistics are unreliable, but legal scholars say that out of the nearly 12 million petitions filed in 2006, only a few thousand will succeed. Out of those, petitioners able to translate Beijing's decrees into corrective action by local officials likely number in the hundreds...
...succeed in the U.S., Topshop will have to win over the American version of loyal shoppers like Caroline Dickinson. A few weeks ago in London, the 21-year-old student waited in line for four hours for the launch of Moss's collection at Topshop. She planned to buy a $100 white cotton dress to wear at her university ball. By the time she got inside, however, she was told that item wasn't available. Unperturbed, Dickinson emerged 15 minutes later and a few hundred dollars lighter with two other dresses and a couple of vests. She vowed to come...
...Born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee, Thompson, the son of a used-car salesman, had no family ties to big-time politics or Hollywood, but his charisma - and luck - eventually helped him succeed in both. After putting himself through college at Memphis State and law school at Vanderbilt, he spent several years in private practice and as a prosecutor and then went on to Washington in 1973 to work on the Watergate investigation. His foray into acting began accidentally. Film director Roger Donaldson interviewed the young lawyer while doing research for a movie about a corruption case and offered...
...could change Harvard for the better. Black students must be frank in sharing their experiences with discrimination at Harvard, and the rest of us must take the time to listen carefully. But if the "I Am Harvard" campaign is to be as inclusive as it needs to be to succeed, then the comments made last week by Dr. S. Allen Counter, the Director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, will prove profoundly damaging...
...these students are failing or at least not getting all that they might out of college because they have been ill prepared by their high schools. This is a travesty. We firmly believe that every high school graduate should have the opportunity and adequate preparation to go to and succeed in college should they so choose. It’s incumbent upon the national government to take a stronger role in devising a national strategy to achieve this ideal. The opportunity for postsecondary education is far too valuable in today’s society to be denied to anyone based...