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Raasuke predicts that the area's integration will only intensify. Many companies, including his own, already treat Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a single market. And close investment ties have already bred closer trade and cultural ties. A decade ago, there was just one flight a day between Tallinn and Stockholm. Now there are six. At Swedbank, half the staff is currently based in the Baltic states or Russia. Such connections have helped drive Sweden's own growth and bolstered its ability to compete on a global stage. When New York City-based nasdaq launched a bid to acquire Sweden...
...lunch, the fastest routes to Prada and Dior as well as Ying Kee Tea House, where guests can stock up on oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat: the Jardine's gun's noon salute, dating back to the early days of the territory. 133 Leighton Road, Hong Kong; tel. + 852 3477 6888; concierge.lphk@lanson place.com...
...annual tests and rigid adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets engendered by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law are flawed means of measuring student proficiency, raising academic standards, holding schools accountable and fostering learning. But since the penalty for defying the law is loss of federal funds, most treat NCLB's prescriptives like bitter medicine they can't afford to spit out. All, that is, except the iconoclasts who run the public schools in Nebraska...
...respect? It's not that critics treat any game show as if it were The Sopranos. But even within the world of game shows, there's a caste system. At the bottom, of course, is National Bingo Night. At the top are the scholarly quiz shows, which reward what we are conditioned from school to think of as "learning." Somewhere in the great liked-but-not-respected middle are the daytime shows like Price made for people outside the 9-to-5 working world...
...racial profiling exists on campus today, it will only abate when students begin to reflect on their own thought processes and unconsidered assumptions. By simply thinking and talking about such issues rather than repressing them, we will become more aware of the problems on campus and the way we treat our peers. With greater awareness will come a more sociable, friendly, and open attitude toward interaction with other students, reducing the frequency of incidents like that on the Quad, racially motivated or not, and making Harvard a stronger community. This incident also sheds light on the poverty of bonds...