Business schools and the image ranking game
A study reports deans view rankings as a game with changing rules and hidden criteria. It notes schools often game the process, spin to manage image, and risk reducing education to a single number. It calls for independent data audits and judicious criteria to restore credibility.
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Debate Over Medical School Size and Brain Drain
Special to Newsday discusses past and present policy on medical school enrollments. It notes how 1960s growth created a physician surplus fears later eased by managed care and now argues for more US graduates to reduce reliance on foreign-trained doctors and curb brain drain to origin countries. The piece cites SUNY Stony Brook leaders Peter C. Williams and Norman E. Edelman.
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Mexico City welcomes Zapatista leader amid mixed signals
The Zapatista movement marches into Mexico City drawing large crowds and provoking welcoming gestures from President Fox but Subcomandante Marcos refuses talks with the 20 congressmen, insisting on addressing the full Congress. Despite the spectacle the uprising failed to win the indigenous leadership claim, with Marcos drawing more followers abroad than in Chiapas. The revolt began with NAFTA in 1994 and has since moved largely to cyberspace as Mexico embraces free-market reforms.
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Doonesbury on Fox and Mexico's democratic shift
The strip links seven years of U S Mexican trade to a shift away from PRI rule and Fox's election. It notes Fox's ally Marcos and aims to show Fox pursuing a fully democratic Mexico. It highlights Indian poverty and illiteracy, government gaps, and the need to handle Zapatista tensions peacefully.
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New anti foreign travel quip cites France farm visit risk
Mark Russell jokes about foot and mouth disease and travel bans. He lampoons American tourists urged not to visit farms in France while poking at Paris and manure imagery with playful deflation of international travel myths.
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