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...market research too, especially in the long months before the launch. (Lipman was hired in the summer of 2005 for a magazine that didn't come out until May 2007.) "When I asked to attend a focus group, they suggested not New York - in the same building - but Chicago," says another former staffer. "Joanne stayed at the Four Seasons. And two people from the art department turned their San Francisco focus-group trip into a multiday minivacation at company expense...
...series of "tea party" rallies. As many Americans hurried to beat the deadline for submitting their 1040 forms, demonstrators irked by what they consider high taxes and profligate government spending gathered in hundreds of locations. Sparked by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli's angry call for a Chicago Tea Party, the protests were organized on blogs and social-networking sites and backed by prominent Republicans...
...competitiveness, it's high time for national standards in American schools in English and mathematics. It's a compelling argument, and to accompany the story, I wanted to talk to the man who might actually help implement national standards, Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan, a former CEO of Chicago's schools, has a historic opportunity in his new job. He is a reformer by instinct and experience, and he will have more money to spend on education than any other Education Secretary in history. To those who worry that education is expensive, Duncan says, "Try ignorance." You'll find...
...that is. By now he's restless with being the pinup boy on Brownies' bedroom walls. He's turned down a remake of Footloose, the '80s high school musical, to free up time for more mature films. "I'm ready for new challenges," Efron told Cindy Pearlman of the Chicago Sun-Times. "I want to act and do serious roles." (He's already made an indie film, Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, in which he plays a struggling actor who's ... 17.) But how to make the transition? Does he carry the tweens into their teens? Try appealing...
...Writing Program’s permanent director.Jehn’s selection has prompted both praise and criticism as those with knowledge of the program consider how his selection will affect the direction the program will take in the future.AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOCUSA graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, Jehn first came to Harvard in 1997 as an Expos preceptor. Jehn has since climbed the Writing Program’s administrative ladder: serving as the head preceptor of Expos, the director of the Extension School’s Writing Center, and then the assistant director...