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...with Coop officials was frustrating, said Petersen, who had initially hoped that the Coop would freely provide the ISBN numbers of the textbooks it carried. “Our goal is to make sure textbooks are cheaper both in the store and online and the only way we can accomplish that is by working with the Coop,” he said. “Which is why this setback has been a little disappointing.” According to a senior manager at the Coop who requested to go unnamed because of store policy, the UC representatives were asked...
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...
China has lately been touted to overtake the United States in Internet usage, but the country's blogosphere is a fascinating, still evolving animal. When mobilized, China's 100 million-plus netizens can, by collective effort, accomplish noble ends. Take the case of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company with a factory in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. After two local journalists published an article questioning labor conditions in the factory (which made parts for Apple's I-pod), Foxconn sued them personally for millions of dollars. But the resulting hue-and-cry on the web prompted the company to back down...
...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...