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...while 30 percent of white students scored in this range. Only seven percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the mathematics exam, while 42 percent of white students did. School Committee member Nancy Walser, who proposed the series of public forums, said that in the wake of the No Child Left Behind legislation, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, the definition of the achievement gap has expanded to include the score differential between students with limited English proficiency and native speakers and the divide between students who receive free and reduced lunch...
...telecommunications network of Nepal. Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia that attracts rather than supplies guest workers. "Kazakhs don't work in other countries' markets as vendors," proudly comments Zhenis Kasenov, an Astana dweller. "Kazakhs come there as buyers." Oil wealth, however, often brings corruption in its wake, and for three years the country has been embroiled in "Kazakhgate." In March 2003, in the most far-reaching charges ever brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. prosecutors charged James Giffen, an American businessman who was once a key Nazarbayev adviser, with funneling $78 million in bribes from...
Such is the fluidity of Solomons politics (Downer mocks it as a "rather curious world") that well-informed observers expect a change of government in Honiara soon. Sogavare has come to power twice in the wake of violence: following a coup in 2000, and after last April's riots. While some of his government's moves seem erratic, the guiding purpose is clear. Under the slogan of "sovereignty," Sogavare is trying to gain control of donor funds and dominate the bureaucracy again. In New York last week to attend the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly, Honiara's delegation sought...
...started snoring in the middle of the night last week. The next morning, my wife was as nice as could be about it, but I could tell it bothered her. She hadn't been able to wake me or push me onto my side to get me to stop, and she ended up spending much of the night with her pillow on her head, trying to block out the noise...
...awaken. I struggled to sit up and fell back. My right leg burned from knee to hip. Blood was oozing from it; my right arm felt heavy and numb. Was I having a nightmare? The hollow, faraway sound of voices was dreamlike. I shook my right arm, trying to wake it up. Still no response. I elevated...