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Becoming a principal seemed the most effective way to accomplish his goals, and in 2003 Kennedy was accepted into the first class at the new Leadership Academy. The program was intense--more than a full year of rigorous training in how to be a good leader, motivating staff, analyzing student test data and dealing with parents, while apprenticing with a mentor principal in an existing school. After graduating with 76 others, Kennedy was offered the opportunity to start a new middle school, the Granville T. Woods School for Science and Technology, known as MS 584, in one of the poorest...
...schnauzer, down Soi Cowboy, and she gets friendly pats from sex workers in hot pants and plastic miniskirts. Even the poodle owned by a fearsome-looking mama-san doesn't mind a fuzzy interloper. With Cassius in tow, my husband does not get asked to "lookee, lookee." Pet dogs accomplish what wives apparently...
...Post, E. J. Dionne Jr. quoted an anonymous Army officer as saying that everything our soldiers accomplish is being undone by Iraqi politicians who "finance and maintain military auxiliary wings" that kill our soldiers. On the Times op-ed page, Captain Luis Carlos Montalvan proposed that "a new set of at least l,400 elite officials jointly selected and vetted by the Iraqi ministries and the coalition forces" form an "anticorruption task force" to eliminate the problem of Iraqi black marketers' selling military supplies to the insurgents...
...that he sought to provide exposure to a different set of educational goals in his lectures, as opposed to what he called “proselytizing.” “I think my audiences were more interested in the big picture, what a liberal arts education can accomplish and the notion that education should have larger and more ambitious goals than professional training,” Lewis said. Lewis penned the 2006 book “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” a reflection on the purpose of college education...
...godfathers of the Bush plan - scholar Fred Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute, and retired four-star Army general Jack Keane - will admit that the 20,000 number is less than they called for. When asked by TIME last week how many troops would be the absolute minimum to accomplish the counterinsurgency goals, Kagan replied that it was the number cited in their proposal - which was at least...