One way to ameliorate the effects would be to top up investment on school repairs, roadbuilding and the like.

ECONOMIST: Tackling the slump

The Columbia Business School and London Business School found one way to address that problem for their joint program: holding four-day sessions once a month, four to a term.

WSJ: An Executive M.B.A. With a Global Flavor

One way to get to grips with the region is to enroll on a weekend course at the Irish School of Landscape Painting.

BBC: Nine culture-filled weekends in Europe

Whether that's a Justin Bieber concert or a Psy concert or an asteroid flyby like we had the other day from NASA (that had about the same viewership as the Sony PlayStation -- 8 million people, and one million concurrents as well), all the way down to your local high school football game.

ENGADGET: Ustream on PlayStation 4: discovery, one-click sharing and being 'a modern day cable provider'

One way to minimise the cost of shareholder activism, says Bernard Black, at Stanford Law School, would be for institutions to put their strength behind initiatives that affect hundreds of companies, not just pick on a few.

ECONOMIST: Shareholder activism

One way, which the government now seems prepared to allow, is to encourage the formation of private school-management chains based on the methods of the best schools.

ECONOMIST: Journey up the learning curve

If these donors wish to help their children, they should begin by teaching them the value of hard work and merit, not how to buy one's way out of an underachieving high-school career.

ECONOMIST: AIDS: a little better

One school of thought believes that new NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr might use the escrow mess as a way to fire up emotions amongst the players heading into labor negotiations next summer.

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