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...group of 2,750 entrepreneurs (who run 84% of the stores), a couple of hundred figure to be unhappy at any given time. A tougher environment always increases the background noise. But there is also some real shouting going on by a number of dissidents in a group called the consortium, organized by Dick Adams, a former Mac franchisee and executive...
...There's just not a tradition of these candidates getting kicked back [to magna grants]," he says. "We are tougher on summas than any other department at Harvard...
...course, easier to be the Emperor's conscience than to be the Emperor himself. Lee's challenge after the hand-over is to retain his moral authority yet not use it to provoke the very crackdown he decries. The challenge facing Tung is far tougher. He has the unenviable task of ruling with the mandate of a mistrusted regime and without the popular mandate of the people. He must ensure that Hong Kong will enjoy the "high degree of autonomy" China promised. And he must prove to Beijing that Hong Kong will not become a dangerous base for subversion...
True enough. But where do you draw the line? Last month U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley introduced the Personal Information Privacy act of 1997, which would make it tougher for businesses to sell Social Security numbers, unlisted phone numbers and other kinds of personal data. The legislation was prompted when Feinstein's staff members claimed to have found her Social Security number on the Net in less than three minutes. "People are losing control of their identities," Feinstein says. "Our private lives are becoming commodities with tremendous value in the marketplace...
Despite their best efforts, American educators well know the sensation. New demands are being placed on teachers that make their jobs harder than ever. Students arrive at school with greater difficulties than in decades past, yet the public's expectations of what children should achieve increase each year. Tougher new academic standards are being instituted in schools around the country, and teachers are being held accountable for seeing that all children reach them. One survey found that 40% of public school teachers would not go into teaching if they had to choose a career again. According to the federal Department...