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...there, Africa Online faces stifling regulations and bureaucracy, inadequate infrastructure, political and economic instability and a lack of consumer spending power. Because of the novelty of the Internet in Africa, potential big players also learn that there's no point concentrating on any single part of the industry. To succeed, companies have to build both the infrastructure that makes access possible and the online services that make it attractive. "In Europe and the U.S. you can choose a niche and sell that niche," says Makatiani. "In Africa you have to be more of a portfolio company and choose three...
...finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. The takeaway from his childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle carried him through a successful career as a lawyer and eventually stints as a legislator and as mayor of Taipei. Despite Chen's success, the grasping of a social climber is also detectable in his tireless rise through the meritocracy. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says columnist...
...when President Lee Teng-hui visited. Also, there's a danger that the pro-reform factions in Beijing will be undermined if the U.S. appears to be cozying up to Taiwan despite President Jiang Zemin's policy of openness towards the West. The race is on right now to succeed Jiang, and the conservatives will use stronger U.S.-Taiwan ties against the reformists. Now that they have Hong Kong and Macau back, Taiwan has become more of an obsession for the Chinese...
Concerned that Universal Global risked becoming a depository for the least motivated students, the district paid $8,500 in 1997 to bring in an acclaimed, privately developed program called AVID. It places C students in the most rigorous courses available, then gives them the support necessary to succeed, including an extra class period each day devoted to individual tutoring. All of Fox's 90 AVID students now plan to go to college. Senior Precious Wright, 18, was forced to move to Kansas after her grandmother, with whom she had been living, died last year. Wright was afraid that without...
...There's still a certain amount of fear, but these days people get away with teaching just about whatever they like. You have to gain a certain amount of notoriety before they take notice. Ratzinger is not a candidate to succeed the pope, by the way. He's considered too conservative...