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...Just how to make up more than four years of missed schooling has not yet been decided. But Superintendent John Westerman of the Richwoods elementary school district, which Shawn attended before 2002 said the school board is committed to doing whatever it takes - including hiring a private teacher - to help Ben catch up academically with his classmates. Though his former classmates are now in the 9th grade, Westerman said that with a private tutors, summer sessions and hard work, Shawn could expect to graduate with his friends on time...
...offers the services of nearly 3,000 members, some 40 of whom are willing to help students out of sticky situations. "There's a lot of pressure on students to do well in school and they don't want to dissapoint their parents," says Park Gwang Il, an English teacher in Namyangju, near Seoul. "They are starting to learn that money talks." The going rate for a phone call to a teacher is about $30, while a visit to a school costs about $100. Some kids are even lining up fake parents on retainer, just in case they might need...
...surely Beijing has something to do with that. But instead of substance, the Americans got a soliloquy-which may explain why, during Wu's speech, some of the U.S. delegates looked bored, fidgety or downright annoyed. One delegation member later joked that Wu reminded him of his "fifth-grade teacher," adding, "I didn't much like fifth grade...
...Here's the basic story... Born in Gujurat, the son of a school teacher, Desai goes abroad as a teenager (heading for Istanbul, not Aden, where Dhirubhai landed) to learn business. He returns a decade later to start a textile company, in partnership with a more cautious cousin who later leaves in a dispute over our hero's risky ways. He switches from cotton to polyester and makes his fortune, creating India's biggest company, in part by encouraging the rising middle class to invest in it (tens of thousands flock to his shareholder meetings). He suffers a stroke that...
Tough going is nothing new for Reid, who was born 67 years ago in Searchlight, Nev., a Mojave Desert town so small that he had the same teacher for his first eight years of school. His father was a hard-drinking miner, and his mother took in washing from local brothels. As an adult, Reid converted to Mormonism. (He is to the right of his caucus on social issues, being against abortion and most gun-control measures...