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Despite her initial skepticism about Victory Schools, the New York City--based company assigned to manage Wright this year, Duke chose to give the firm a try, persuaded her wary staff to do the same and then hoped for the best. "We dumb-lucked out," she says. Of the three for-profits awarded contracts, Victory is the only one that has been given an additional school to run next year, and it also seems likely to manage some of the small high schools that Philadelphia schools chief Vallas would like to open in the next few years, replacing the district...
...supposed to be In the Bedroom," explains Clarkson, playing with her hair. "And movies the critics like, I don't understand. Sorry, I'm not that artsy. I loved Waterworld." In fact, Clarkson and Guarini can't wait to see Dumb and Dumberer, and enter into a long and oddly impressive quote session from the original. These two have clearly been around each other a lot. Usually in front of the media. But they have a likable self-star-struck quality about their new celebrity. "At the MTV video music awards, [TLC's] T-Boz actually called us by name...
...already drew a two-thirds-male audience with pro wrestling and sci-fi reruns, saw a chance to claim a new niche in cable. And it doesn't hurt that men, especially those under 35, are an attractive audience for advertisers, always on the lookout for another venue for Dumb and Dumberer ads. TNN picked Spike, says the network's president, Albie Hecht, because the name is "active," "smart and contemporary" and "unapologetically male" (as in, Is that a spike in your ratings, or are you just happy to see me?). But the choice led to some bad p.r. last...
...Roland Warren, President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which tracked 102 prime time programs over the course of five weeks to determine how fathers fare on the tube. "But on your typical TV series, I'm sorry to say that Dad still falls into the 3 D's category - dumb, dangerous or disinterested...
...heard that if a woman cannot solve a problem she might think, ‘I’m just too dumb to do this,’ whereas a guy might think this problem is wrong,” Chadderdon says. “If you meet with other people…you realize the problem set is hard and it?...