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...increased from 49% to 63%. There are more minority students, more first-generation students--and more students who lack basic skills. Far more students must take jobs to cover college costs. Add to all that the sudden freedom of college life, and the stage is set for emotional turmoil, binge drinking and academic failure...
...After 20 years of independence in Zimbabwe, surprisingly little has changed. White farmers are again facing a black insurgency - only now it represents a government seemingly bent on destroying them, even if it destroys the country. The turmoil in Chinhoyi is the latest in an 18-month onslaught against the white farming community since Mugabe declared a "fast-track" policy of seizing more than 90% of white-owned farmland for black resettlement. Nine white farmers have died in the accompanying violence. Scores of black farm workers have been injured, and thousands more have been driven from the land by militant...
...that he will stand for East Timor's presidency when the country gains full independence next year. With the young nation about to hold its first legislative election, Gusm?o spoke with Time's Phil Zabriskie and Zamira Loebis about the perplexing challenge of achieving a national reconciliation after the turmoil that has accompanied the path to independence...
Therein lies the dilemma for those who wish to regulate assisted living. The vast majority of residents pay for their own care, and according to industry surveys, most are satisfied. Even at the height of turmoil at the Eagan center, several families wrote thank-you letters for the "wonderful" and "tender" care and for providing a place "just like home." So how to justify government intrusion? Michigan decided it couldn't, and the state swiftly passed a law that allowed Cyphert and all other assisted-living residents to stay as long as they wish if the family, the doctor...
...worst of it has passed. Even so, people are still seething to themselves, silently hating their jobs and the companies that hacked away their own people, actively seeking headhunters or packing their bags and hopping on a flight out of here. But it was when the atmosphere of turmoil was much worse back in the spring that a coworker had dug out the old newspaper advertisement and had pasted it on the wall. For, as someone later explained to me, “What better than irony to get across the bitterness and frustration at a life that seems...