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...every school day of his childhood, my grandfather padded barefoot down eight kilometers of dirt track to go to class. His family was poor, but understood this blistering walk was the ticket to a better life - one that would lead him from an obscure village in Kerala to success in India's cities. A landmark bill put into effect this month aims to open his path to all, making free education a fundamental right for children between 6 and 14. The law is sorely needed in a country with the world's largest population of young people. At least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

...cartoonists must be careful to ensure that these symbols are correctly interpreted—which often necessitates the use of cliches understood by an international audience, said Daryl Cagle, owner of the cartoon database Web site Cagle Cartoons and cartoonist for MSNBC.com...

Author: By Robert T. Bowden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cartoonists Discuss Their Freedom to Work | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

Rosenzweig said that when students would ask Harding why they were asked to read a story by American novelist John Cheever, he would always tell them to go back to the text until they understood the motivation behind the assignment and could discover its meaning for themselves...

Author: By Sirui Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Expos Teacher Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...underlying causes we had very much pinpointed and understood way before the elections. So in fact, it only strengthened our will - and my will - to say we really have to change this country: Issues like how the public administration is run, issues like lack of transparency, clientelistic party politics (which would mean doing favors to your friends and voters and so on, rather than putting down rules) which undermine a sense of rule of law. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with George Papandreou | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Abroad, populations are working together despite differences in order to improve the world around them, but here in the United States we often forget the value of cooperation. As Martin Luther King Jr. understood, it takes collaboration across the lines that continue to divide us to effectively address the major problems facing the world...

Author: By Miranda E. Rosenberg | Title: This is Pharaoh’s Army | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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