Can Intervention Work? - book recommendation

[carvel2]

Intervention strategies work at school with:
accurately identified and targeted pupils, high expectations, adeqaute resources, clear success criteria and staff who know what they are doing (sprinkeled with a bit of talent).
I guess the same applies to war

[Cubster]

Hong Kong was indeed British territory in perpetuity, it was the New Territories that were under 99 year lease. But apparently Hong Kong did not have enough water without the New Territories, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong# ... lonial_era

Well raise my rent, I genuinely never knew even a sniff of that - and I used to live there! Thank you for allowing me to go to bed tonight a little richer.

[zedeyejoe]

I used to visit Hong Kong quite a bit - not so interested now under Chinese rule, more expensive and not so interesting.

On one trip I was with some ex-British servicemen and the customs chap asked one if he had been to Hong Kong before. The answer he got back was "Son, I helped build this airport". In WW2 the Japanese used POWs to build new runways for Kai Tak airport.

But we had a good holiday there and in China, where we had more interesting adventures as well. I got to speak to a Chinese army major in French, which was our only common language, he having picked up his French when serving in Vietnam. We were given a talk by a retired Chinese general who got really enthusiastic about his days a young lad, sneaking into Japanese sleeping quarters and killing the soldiers before stealing their guns. The talk was supposed to last half an hour but went on for 2 hours before his aides gently persuaded him to stop.