Word: dynamo
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...hard to say how much of the transformation can be attributed to NCLB. Much is due to changes made to the curriculum in Philadelphia and even more to Stanton's dynamo principal, Barbara Adderley. Certainly, she is a big fan of testing and accountability. She holds grade-level meetings with teachers in a room with two long assessment walls, which display the latest test results for every student. The walls show, at a glance, who's making progress and who isn't, and if it's the latter, Adderley and her team have a million creative ideas on what...
...Next month, we're releasing a thing we did with Al Franken. It's kind of wonderful because you watch this delinquent Saturday Night Live character reform himself and turn into a political dynamo. We filmed him for over a year and a half. It's called Al Franken: God Spoke. How it got that title, I'm not sure. But it hung on and everybody remembers it that...
...find ways to instill a unifying sense of nationalism in the country's ethnic, tribal and religious factions. Iraqis could build a first-class military to protect themselves from potential enemies and help defend freedom and liberty throughout the Middle East. They could rebuild their nation into an economic dynamo, just as Japan did after World War II. A united Iraq would have no fear of external threats like Iran and would be able to fend off Islamo-fascism from within and without. Baghdad was once the cradle of civilization, and it can rise from the ashes...
...find ways to instill a unifying sense of nationalism in the country's ethnic, tribal and religious factions. Iraqis could build a first-class military to protect themselves from potential enemies and help defend freedom and liberty throughout the Middle East. They could rebuild their nation into an economic dynamo, just as Japan did after World War II. A united Iraq would have no fear of external threats and would be able to fend off Islamo-fascism from within and without. Baghdad was once the cradle of civilization, and it can rise from the ashes of war and tyranny...
...says about her work with Harvard fashion show Eleganza, in which she served as fashion director, creative director, and most recently, executive producer. “I like creating an opportunity for others to have fun.” Since her freshman year, Petrich has been a social-event dynamo. She started her freshman fall as chair of the First-Year Social Committee and “hosting awesome themed-parties in my room in Hurlbut,” she says. She’s moved on from organizing Costume Catwalks with the FYSC to a bigger project: the soon...