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...every child is entitled to an education regardless of background or learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study...
...himself with the strip of cardboard. "I have to eat and send money home." For Chen and the other workers - Chinese as well as Papua New Guinean - toiling deep in the bush, all they can ask for is survival. But the big Chinese firms, and the local governments they support - they expect nothing less than the kind of fortunes that will reshape the world...
...propaganda apparatus erected by TIME to support Clinton reveals itself once again in Joe Klein's "intimate portrait" - yet another example of how TIME serves as her permanent, adoring advocate. Come on, TIME: printing PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT on each page is the least you can do. John Fitzpatrick Livonia, Mich...
...propaganda apparatus erected by TIME to support Clinton reveals itself once again in Joe Klein's "intimate portrait" - yet another example of how TIME serves as her permanent, adoring advocate. Come on, TIME: printing PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT on each page is the least you can do. John Fitzpatrick, LIVONIA, MICH...
...President has also expanded accountability. That's necessary, he says, because with the ANC consistently winning around 65% at the polls, elections are not much of a check on the party. "We are too strong. Such support and power can intoxicate the party and lead you into believing that you know it all. You take things for granted. [The party] ends up unwieldy and in a mess." So Zuma appointed a close adviser, Collins Chabane, to a new ministry inside the presidency to monitor performance. He set up a planning commission, also inside the presidency, to enforce a consistent long...