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...policy is a 10-foot radius, but its working definition is dependent upon a number of transient conditions—time of day, mood, the proximity of one’s lunch break, etc. The range must be large enough to comply with policy, and yet small enough to avoid confusing the customer. If the customer cannot immediately identify a nearby employee as the source of the greeting, he or she is left to worry that he or she has unwittingly ignored a friend, neighbor, or other well-wisher. Then, the customer usually spins around, peering behind pillars and free...
...Senate and House measures assign grades based on yearly scores on reading and math exams. In the Senate bill schools would have 10 years to bring students up to academic speed and would have to show at least a one percent gain each year in test scores to avoid sanctions from loss of federal funds to, at the extreme end, closure. The House version gives schools a full 12 years and states would be free to come up with their own definition of the yearly progress schools must demonstrate. Although either plan seems to provide an ample cushion, a growing...
...Rice said the U.S. wants to avoid being perceived as violating the ABM treaty. And that forms the basis of the Russian game plan. Washington made clear that a robust testing plan for a missile defense system will begin shortly. They won't get into the semantics of when they'll violate the terms of the 1972 treaty, but it's clear that they will. The Russians may be waiting for that phase to begin, and to then denounce the U.S. as the violator of treaties...
...Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid: China has executed 1,700 people this year in a crackdown on crime, more than the rest of the world combined for the past three years, according to Amnesty International. And Beijing recently ordered newspapers to avoid reporting corruption scandals, religious practices or the private lives of leaders. "The real question in China is the survivability of the party," says Marc Blecher, a professor at Ohio's Oberlin College, "and if it's threatened, the Olympics become low priority...
...Watching Indonesian politics, it's hard to avoid the sense that it's largely about the backroom intrigues among factions of the elite, while ordinary people watch from the sidelines, and are rolled on- and offstage by those elites as an extension of their backroom maneuverings. How are ordinary Indonesians perceiving the latest change...