Word: commitment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, examined America's race and class divides and opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with...
These are the kinds of crimes American cities expected never to see in high numbers again. In the 1990s police departments nationwide began applying the so-called broken-windows theory: arrest the bad guys for minor offenses, and they wouldn't be around to commit more serious ones. This zero-tolerance approach--combined with more cops on the street to enforce it, a strong economy and a fortuitous demographic change that reduced the population of young men who typically cause the most trouble--lowered the rates of murder, robbery and rape for 10 consecutive years. Until last year. Not only...
...during the Reagan Administration's war on drugs in the 1980s and the zero-tolerance crackdown in the '90s. Calculate in average recidivism rates of 40% for those released from federal penitentiaries and 67% for those who leave state facilities, and it's clear that more crimes are being committed because there are simply more criminals around to commit them. Says Milwaukee district attorney E. Michael McCann: "We're charging the same guys who came through our doors 10 or 20 years...
...turn out that way. When [director] Sam [Mendes] sent the script, I was doing a film, but I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes' wife] at our kids' nursery school, and the next day Sam showed up and said, "If you can commit right now, we'll move it." You've been directed by your husband [Bart Freundlich] three times, most recently in Trust the Man. How much of that film was autobiographical? What I've learned from Bart is that every character is the writer, just different aspects of them...
...says Zambrano. Chamorro-Padilla is a second-generation immigrant who attended University of California-Santa Barbara, and believes that higher education is essential. “Today, college is the way to success. I think generally people know that; the difference is between those that know and those that commit to getting there: to make that dream into a reality. That’s what Andy’s striving...