Word: fitful
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...creating a character or a publicist positioning a client. You can be professional on LinkedIn, flippant on Facebook and epigrammatic on Twitter. What's more, each of these representations can be very different and yet entirely authentic. Like a reality producer in a video bay, you edit yourself to fit the context...
That doesn't fit the model of wholesale change preferred by turnaround evangelists. But that's another lesson of school reform: half measures are often the best you can do. "There is an opportunity here to fix schools that haven't worked for a long, long time," says Ben Rayer, the chief charter-school liaison for the School District of Philadelphia and former COO of Mastery. "The money and the desire to do so are there now." It's easy to be paralyzed by the enormousness of the task, he adds. "But man, you just gotta start...
...lunch and dinner. I also drank a lot of water, some coffee and a glass of fruit juice daily. (And, yes, I did note the irony that hundreds of thousands of quake survivors were going on the Haitian version of the Hollywood Cookie Diet, which has helped various celebrities fit into their skinny jeans...
...says, is the "deconcentration" of half a million Haitians away from Port-au-Prince. (There, he admits, the death toll was so high in large part because Haiti has had "no policy on controlling the population" of more than 2 million in a city where barely a million can fit.) As a first step toward creating enough jobs to keep relocated Haitians in the now sparsely populated provinces, Bellerive is urging international donors to aid a massive resuscitation of agriculture in a country that imports an astonishing 75% of its food...
...Ronald Reagan, especially when he flashes a grin as affable as it is concealing. There's also a Halliburton-type company, called Hatherton, that links the P.M. to George W. Bush. But Lang and Olivia Williams, in the role of his bright, prickly wife Ruth, are a good fit for Tony and Cherie Blair. Then again, they could be another political power couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton: the salesman and his less charismatic but brilliant wife. Is the woman betrayed by the man, or is she controlling him, or both? Could either a U.S. President or a U.K. Prime Minister...