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...kids worldwide, it's the worst kind of letter home: a request for a meeting between parents and teachers. But in Korea, beleaguered students who are loath to tell their folks that they've broken the rules or flunked a test have discovered a nifty new alternative: online employment agencies, which-for a fee-will provide them with a phony parent to take care of the matter...
...think we're in reasonably good - or let me say a better position on North Korea than we've been for a while because the North Koreans' decision to test actually succeeded in rallying everybody in a very dramatic fashion. We were - I was on the telephone with the other five - the other four within hours of the North Korea testing and we were in the Security Council with a resolution by the end of the week. That's lightning speed. And the - what it really showed was the benefit of having worked this coalition over a period...
...liar, a loser and "King George." But with the slimmest possible majority (51 to 49) in a chamber where he needs at least nine Republicans to get anything difficult done--60 votes being what it takes to get past a filibuster and 67 to override a veto--the real test of Reid's leadership will be more about finesse. Republicans say they believe Reid when he says he wants to work with them, and in an initial show of good faith, he and minority leader Mitch McConnell co-sponsored the ethics and lobbying-reform legislation that is the Senate...
...life is barely recognizable from those days when he earned $10 a month on that offshore Soviet rig. Since joining the pipeline project in 2003, he has bought a car for himself and for his father, who worked in Soviet oil production for 30 years. But the real test of how Azerbaijan has changed will be the future of Mirza's daughter, who is now 10. "When all our oil is finished, say, in 50 years from now, there should be no problems for her." So until then, party on, Baku...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...