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...Cronkite and Quincy Jones. "He's an excellent host," says Tony Gilroy, director of Michael Clayton. "He's really smart about figuring out what people need and want. Are they hot? Happy? Cold? Thirsty? He has that ability to bend himself to the space he's in and instantly adjust to the group he's with." So I wondered, Can George Clooney possibly be a guest? Or is that just against the natural order of things? And what would I even cook? All his assistant would say was, "He'll eat whatever is cooking...
...Cambridge. “She will continue to impact this team and the league for years to come.” Markley’s return to basketball hasn’t been all smiles and season-highs—like any freshman, she’s had to adjust to the new level of play expected in Division I basketball. As a high school star who towered above the competition both literally and figuratively, Markley has had to learn how to use her body to her advantage and to play defense without the easy block as a backup plan...
...loss on Saturday didn’t seem to faze too many guys,” Weitzen said. “They just have a completely different style of volleyball than we’re used to playing. It was hard to adjust to it, but it was still a good match and we played really well. It was great. We’re all really excited about what this weekend brought us.”Sophomore Erik Kuld paced the Crimson offense with a whopping 26 kills. Junior captain Brady Weissbourd notched 15 kills and reached a team-best...
...student test results, projects a trajectory for each student based on past performance and then looks at whether, at the end of the year, the students in a given teacher's class tended to stay on course, soar above expectations or fall short. Sanders uses statistical methods to adjust for flaws and gaps in the data. "Under the best circumstances," he claims, "we can reliably identify the top 10% to 30% of teachers...
Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood of northwestern Tokyo's Toshima Ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the pace of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (based on the name of a district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses...