Back in the dusty yard of her home just below the school built from tyres and mud in Khan al Amar, Manar is concentrating hard on her homework.

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Clean-cut and calculating, Smith was the sort of ambitious financier who worked hard, did his homework, and cheated, too.

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Sumrin Mudgil, 14, says it can be hard to balance her homework with so much practice, but she loves playing the sport especially the tournaments, which allow her to make friends across the country.

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Most of the rest are shunted off into special schools for the mentally disabled or else drop out of normal school before they are 15 years old, many of them defeated by bullying and homework that is hard to finish in cold and unlit homes.

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Ms. Zhang said Ms. Lu hit the books hard, sometimes turning down offers to chat because she had homework to finish.

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