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...done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most nominated actor in the history of the Academy, but has won only twice. Which makes it more notable that during shooting she essentially worked as an extra for three days, sitting in the background as the action focused on the assistants outside her office. She was probably on her BlackBerry, e-mailing one of her four children. "Gwyneth Paltrow put me on to it," she says. "It's the best parenting tool, because you can use it during a scene and no one will...
...refight those debates today to a heartbreaking background track of casualty reports, we have one advantage over our forerunners of the Vietnam era: direct access to an open and global communications network. I am happy, and lucky, to have made a journalism career on the Internet; building a news operation on the Web carried fond echoes for me of the years I spent at 14 Plympton Street. In all those late-night basement shifts, pasting up flats in the shop and developing plates for the press, The Crimson had taught me at least one thing: the best way to insure...
...moral demands of leadership will eventually lose the power to lead. Privacy in a search process is important, but not at the expense of due diligence. Corporations fear that press scrutiny of their CEO searches will scare off good candidates. But searches for university presidents need the same background checks that ordinary corporate boards expect when hiring CEOs—even if leading candidates are considered known quantities. Secretive searches are vulnerable to undue influence by insiders and undue malice by gossipers.A good leader gets people to follow. Leadership is not simply having good ideas and then giving orders...
...conversation turns from Kelley’s background to the city that he helps govern, he wants to talk about one thing and one thing only—the school system. And no matter the issue or question presented, he has a remarkable knack for tying everything back to the schools...
...more likely than girls to have behavioral problems.The much higher rate of disciplinary and behavior problems for males and the far lower amount of time they spend on homework can explain almost the entire female advantage in college attendance for the high school class of 1992, adjusting for family background, test scores, and high-school achievement, according to Goldin and Katz’s research.One year after University President Lawrence H. Summers pledged to spend $50 million on an effort that is—in part—focused on improving the position of female students and scholars at Harvard...