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...connect rate from downtown, and just 3-of-13 in the first half. “The thing we talked about significantly was getting the three-point defense down,” Sullivan said. “That’s been a very important concept for us.” LOOKING AHEAD The Harvard men’s 2006-2007 basketball season is over, but Sullivan is already salivating over next season’s potential starting backcourt of Jeremy Lin and Drew Housman. “We’ve seen some really solid play from Jeremy...
Some on the left wing of the Democratic Party would like to see No Child Left Behind done away with. Are you going to deliver reauthorization this year? The concept of including every child in education as a national goal is one that I wholeheartedly and completely agree with. But there are children left out. If this were the space program, we would have gone to the moon, landed and gotten halfway back. We have work to do in the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind and plenty of it. But do I believe we can get a reauthorization...
Snyder, 40, cut his teeth on high-concept, effects-heavy TV commercials. He made his feature debut in 2004 with a feather-light, razor-sharp remake of the zombie classic Dawn of the Dead. (Rent it just for the opening credits, where zombies rip various cities to pieces as Johnny Cash sings When the Man Comes Around.) Snyder is something of a dork. Only a dork--the finest, most discriminating of dorks--would have read 300 in the first place. When Mat made The 300 Spartans, he packed up his cameras and his actors and his caterers and went...
Every season, her collection starts once Prada has chosen a concept. Then she will turn to different fabric mills and ask for special treatments of fabrics that interest her (90% of the fabrics are created exclusively for Prada). The mills will come back with 25 or more variations on her request. "That is the real luxury of being a big fashion company. When you are big, the quality is better," she explains. For the average women's fall-winter collection, she will focus on as many as 50 different fabrics, eventually narrowing the final selection down...
...delight in believing in a world where anyone that works hard enough can make it. It’s easy to see it that way from where we stand. All around us there are success stories of people overcoming overwhelming odds. Although these concepts can pop up in multiple contexts, the paradigmatic example is the 19th century American author, Horatio Alger, and his famous rags-to-riches stories. The popularity of this theme is exemplified by Alger’s success and continues to be the driving force in the concept of the American Dream...