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...make sure these traits actually get taught (and learned). Thousands of schools have already introduced character education programs, in many different forms and with varying results. The most popular program, which now reaches more than one million students, is Character Counts! It avoids the kind of pedantic (and typically useless) lectures on virtue that many critics fear will be encouraged by the Bush grants. Schools that use Character Counts! integrate values-teaching throughout the curriculum: each month is devoted to one character trait, which teachers then incorporate into their lessons (the Helen Keller story, for example, becomes a case study...
...When they are not calling him Wizard (a tribute to his magical offensive abilities), the Mariners gleefully refer to Ichiro as Ichiballs. He has learned a variety of English curse words, plus some of America's most useless phrases. Rookie reliever Ryan Franklin taught Ichiro to say "chillin' like Bob Dylan...
...Ultimately, however, that money is useless until it is spent. To the student or researcher at Harvard, the fact that the University controls a $19.2 billion endowment is insignificant—it is the yearly income provided by that endowment that makes the day-to-day difference...
...then dumped back into the world expected to function, even function well. If I continued in my overly analytical way to question all my assumptions, considering the theories I’ve learned, the contradictions between these ideas and the injustices in the world, I would be a useless employee and unproductive member of society. So while we should continue learning and thinking critically, I am excited for this opportunity to do, to act on those values even when I still have difficulty justifying them...
...become known as the land where economics comes to die. Interest rates have been cut so many times that they now rest at just .05%. The Japanese government has spent more money on public works than any other country in the world, but blowing all that cash has been useless. There is a hole in the center of Japan--a deep lack of confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start...