Word: channelling
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When the Crimson was down by a goal late in the game and nothing it did seemed to be working, Vaillancourt would make seemingly impossible moves as she danced around defenders before slipping the puck past a helpless goalie. When Harvard was a player down, Vaillancourt would channel her inner defenseman and lock down her opponent’s scoring threats until the penalty was killed...
There is considerable ferment in the academic world today—about the high cost of college, about the curriculum and what students actually learn and should learn, about teaching methods, and about the quality of student life. What can be done to channel these concerns constructively into improvements...
...concentrated poverty, and this is reflected in the quality of education in those areas. Nor is recruiting an adequate long-term strategy. With a sizeable pool of bilingual Spanish and English speakers in Boston itself, the problem now is more a lack of organization than talent. Efforts to channel the best and brightest native bilingual college students into teaching programs—much like Teach for America does—should be boosted immediately, especially in less wealthy neighborhoods where spending will be most effective. In the interim, however, a generation of kids is falling behind. Public school administrators should...
...jump the gun. Somewhere in a cabinet at Fox headquarters, there must be a bulging file of the premature obituaries written for it. Fox debuted in 1996 and quickly flourished in the Clinton era. After Bush won, some thought the channel--and Rush Limbaugh et al.--would suffer from an outrage deficit...
...through the fin de régime, Fox News will have one important asset: its loyal viewer base. But even for them, it will need to shake up its comfortable Bush-era routine, perhaps by cultivating new hosts, perhaps by taking a page from McCain and branding itself as the channel of maverick authenticity, not of establishment dogma. The viewers are Fox's to keep. It just has to figure out what's going to make them mad starting...