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principal characters germany Thomas Neville Posdethwaite. British scientist. Pioneered the study of what children know around the world. Mentor to Andreas Schleicher. Andreas Schleicher. German scientist at the OECD who helped create the PISA test, designed to measure twenty-first century...

CHAPTER ONE Like a human snowplow, I surge against the flow of chanting, banner-waving students pouring into the boulevard St.-Germain. I am determined to get to the Café de Flore before Richard does. My husband has flown all night from Kabul on a military plane. I am merely crossing from the...

Foreword by Uri Dan On February 6, 2001, the citizens of Israel elected Ariel Sharon as their prime minister. He accepted this position—one which few ever thought he would attain—with spiritual calm, but also with full seriousness, reflecting the single-minded purpose, as Winston Churchill...