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After three and a third years here, very little has changed. I still love walking alone through the Yard on a brisk fall morning—late morning, anyway—with crunchy leaves underfoot and a deep blue sky overhead. And while I don’t get into Boston nearly as often as I would like, I still head into town as much as I can for dinner or a movie, just to feel plugged in with the real world, however trite it sounds in theory—and, indeed, however trite it is in practice. Boston remains...
These quality issues are raising concerns about VW's hold on the North American market--the largest and most vibrant in the world, and a critical one for VW's profit growth. While VW is puttering along in Europe's anemic market--the firm has an 18% share in Western Europe and has sold almost 2 million cars in the first nine months of 2003--it is struggling on this continent. The VW brand's U.S. sales fell 14.6% over that same period, to 221,177, and operating profits in North America shrank to $68 million in the first...
...largest in the world this year, rekindled fears of a terrorist market for this kind of material. All Polled Out SERBIA-MONTENEGRO Serbia's ruling coalition dissolved itself after its candidate in the presidential ballot was out-polled by an ultranationalist. The 18-party Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which came to power in 2000 after ousting strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has been riven by infighting and two weeks ago called early elections after losing its parliamentary majority. The presidential ballot was ruled invalid due to low voter turnout - for the third time in just over a year. Freedom, for Some ZIMBABWE...
...while the nation fares slightly better than adjacent Pakistan and Bangladesh in terms of corruption, this is hardly an upstanding neighborhood. Each year, Transparency International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies are. This year India ranked 83rd, Pakistan 102nd, and Bangladesh, at 133rd, was dead last. With the world's second largest population and Asia's third largest economy, the size of Indian officialdom's graft is staggering. According to a TI 2002 report, police, doctors, teachers, judges, taxmen, land-registry employees, railway workers and utilities regulators make off with...
...seems likely only to reinforce the socio-economic bias of the exam. Consider the new writing section. According to Fitzsimmons, writing skills strongly correlate with personalized education more often received by students from affluent backgrounds. He said, “In the real world I would make one prediction, the writing, the third R, really does require small classes and lots of individual attention. You will see students from poorer backgrounds do quite badly on the writing portion...