Word: overcrowdedness
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Children squeal and flutter into schools where the poor are taught poorly and the rich look forward to careers in international banking. Men and women in nearly equal numbers take their stations at jobs that have less and less to do with making things and more with providing "services." (A...
Nonetheless, some kind of university reform is clearly needed. State spending per student has fallen over the years, as have maintenance and investment in new buildings. At the same time, enrollment has boomed. Equipment and funds are scarce, classes overcrowded; more than 60% of enrollees drop out after their first...
After a relatively calm summer, the mood of Haiti is turning sour again. Violent antigovernment protests have erupted over widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and, ominously, the founding of a political party by ) followers of the deposed Duvaliers. Adding to the turmoil, Haitians last week recoiled from a more immediate...
He has no money, no idea how to get his wife and children--one of whom is ill--out of detention in Texas, and no idea how to fit them into his overcrowded house if he does get his family out of detention and into Boston. And, while the man...
A friend evokes an image that captures Gordon's energy: "Jennifer was great at dealing with the subway in Mexico this summer. The Mexico City subways are tremendously overcrowded, but tiny as she is, she was able to squeeze through and always get out first."