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...Lower-tier schools, however, may not be able to compete because of a lack of resources, and many will likely end up closed or consolidated. But the ruthless competition will ultimately be good for students, says Kiyoaki Murakami, a science and technology research director at Tokyo-based think tank Mitsubishi Research Institute. "I believe the quality of Japanese education will improve, especially if the current sense of urgency drives Japanese schools to start competing with M.I.T. and Harvard." As for Hagi, new investors are considering relaunching it as a training school for social services, including elderly care?one job sector...
...passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon ... Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium...
...slump and doubt that a civilian government may be able to do much better have revived support for the country's leftist guerrillas. "There are many people in this country living in misery," says Benedicto Lucas García, a retired general and former Chief of Staff who directed a ruthless anti-insurgency campaign in 1980 and 1981 that had the rebels on the run. "That's why the guerrillas are growing stronger...
Beneath the hype and ambition of the prosecutors in the trials of the Mafia families lies the real issue of human frailty. The decimation of these organizations will not thwart the demand for their services. In time, others, perhaps more ruthless and less insular, will fill the vacuum. Paul Riley New York City Parisian Terror...
...Australia won that series 4-0 and it's been fee-fi-fo-fum ever since, especially under the ruthless Steve Waugh, who coined the phrase "mental disintegration" to describe how Australia tries to unsettle and eventually demoralize its rivals. Last year, Waugh handed over to Ponting, a prodigy from Launceston, Tasmania. Despite making some diplomatic noises, Ponting has kept the approach rolling. "That's what it's all about," said the captain, resplendent in gray suit and pink shirt, shortly before boarding a plane in Brisbane for London on June 4. "Everything we do is based on applying pressure...