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...West End House Boys and Girls Club where they tutor them in English and math for about two hours. The program also seeks to open the refugee children's eyes to the world around them, by taking them on field trips--to receive Christmas gifts from Flynn or to visit the Children's Museum. "The amount of information transmitted is not as important as the appreciation of learning," said Richard Louie '90, a volunteer in the after-school tutoring program...
Concern about the trade deficit focused attention on last week's visit to the White House by Japan's new Prime Minister, Noboru Takeshita. Last year Japan accounted for $60 billion of the U.S. trade gap. The two leaders agreed that reducing the trade imbalance was a "top priority," but took only a few modest steps in that direction. Takeshita made new proposals to give American construction companies greater access to Japanese public works projects. He also promised that his government would strive to hold down interest rates, which could help stimulate Japan's economy and boost demand for imports...
...vote. U.N. officials were also indignant at the sour reception Under Secretary-General Marrack Goulding received last week in Jerusalem. Goulding, a Briton assigned by the U.N. to investigate conditions in refugee camps, was snubbed by most Israeli officials, then denied access to two camps he tried to visit. When he finally made his way into the Gaza camp at Rafah, demonstrators threw stones at his army escort, and he was accused by Israeli military authorities of provoking a riot...
...reorganizing the country's three legislative bodies. Lee's need to play consensus politics may prevent him from moving rapidly on that and other unfinished business. The new leader will almost certainly continue the policy, begun only last November, of allowing Taiwan residents to travel to the mainland to visit family members. So far, more than 11,000 former mainlanders have traveled legally to China, and thousands more have made the trip covertly...
Grandma (who we were, of course, going to visit) lives in a Condo Complex. Most Condo Complexes (and there are many) have similar features: swimming pools, shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, clubhouses, lots of old people, and lots of completely identical buildings to house the old people. They also generally have imposing walls and gates staffed by crack walkie-talkie-toting octogenarian security forces. Grandma assures me this is to provide protection from the hordes of degenerate muggers and rapists who swarm around South Florida after the sun sets...