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LEVY: Let me be blunt: I think you need ruthless leadership that is prepared to tackle really ancient problems of management in order to get the best teachers teaching those who are less able to get performance out of students. I have intentionally used the language of management for the reason that I think it evokes a whole different response. If you've got branches or distant offices that don't work well, you put your strongest managers there. In this industry--if I can call it that--we do the opposite. We take our youngest teachers, our weakest managers...
...classical theory is being rewritten by the sheer strength and dynamism of the American economy. Not only is the U.S. growing faster than any other major nation, but it is also enjoying a surge in productivity that promises to keep growth going well into the future, if a bit less exuberantly than today. And, for all Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's fears of renewed inflation, price and wage increases have not eaten up any significant part of the gains...
...than simply Korea, and the breakthrough summit between the leaders of North and South signals a changing game for all the players on this most dangerous of Cold War chessboards. The Korean War, which ended with a cease-fire rather than a peace treaty 47 years ago, was fought less because Koreans themselves couldn't get along than because the West, Russia and China were jostling to expand their "spheres of influence." The end of the Cold War has opened new opportunities for the Koreans to contemplate reunification. But the German model of West absorbing East is unlikely to apply...
...Either way, he's not about to allow an influx of foreign influences to undermine his country's monolithic Stalinist ideology, so don't expect to see the Golden Arches popping up alongside Pyongyang's Juche Tower anytime soon. Indeed, even the long-term perspective on reunification may be less likely to resemble the two Germanys than the "one country, two systems" under which Beijing reincorporated Hong Kong...
...York) takes the cake for best single market play, lightweight division. Normally a conservative marketeer, in August 1997 the man who would beat Hillary plunked down $2,300 on a bushel of options in Long Island brokerage Quick & Reilly, whose executives have donated $35,000 to Lazio's campaigns. Less than two weeks later, takeover rumors swirled, the stock popped, and Lazio cashed in for $16,000. Denials all around on whether anything fishy was going on. By the way, Lazio is on both the House Banking and Commerce committees...