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...Lower-tier schools, however, may not be able to compete because of a lack of resources, and many will likely end up closed or consolidated. But the ruthless competition will ultimately be good for students, says Kiyoaki Murakami, a science and technology research director at Tokyo-based think tank Mitsubishi Research Institute. "I believe the quality of Japanese education will improve, especially if the current sense of urgency drives Japanese schools to start competing with M.I.T. and Harvard." As for Hagi, new investors are considering relaunching it as a training school for social services, including elderly care?one job sector...
...issue. In Texas, which in 2001 became the first state to grant such tuition benefits, fewer than 8,000 undocumented immigrants--out of a public college population of more than 1 million--got reduced rates last year. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter immigration rules, says it is more a matter of principle: "Extending in-state tuition is a way of legitimizing their presence. It is back-door amnesty...
What made the discoverer of an image on a soybean-oil storage tank near Fostoria, Ohio [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 29], think it was Jesus? Or even a man? And what about the child? Jesus had no children. It could be Mary with the Christ child. To me the image resembles my neighbor down the street with his youngest daughter. Otto Ackerman Tempe, Ariz...
...there is a figure on the tank in Fostoria, how do these people know that it is Jesus? Maybe it is Moses or Muhammad or Yul Brynner. Larry A. Gardner, Professor of Religion Capital University Columbus...
...knows what Jesus looked like. Painters and sculptors have tended to give him idealized features. He may have had a big nose or a receding chin. Even when enhanced by an artist, the photograph of the image on a rusty soybean-oil storage tank in Ohio could be taken to represent a hooded hangman, a Ku Klux Klan member or even a Russian woman in a babushka. When things as ridiculous as this make news, we become a silly society. William David Perkins Ann Arbor, Mich...