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...determined by one’s socio-economic circumstances as a child.” Jill Norton, executive director of the Rennie Center and a student of Reville’s at GSE, said he is successful because he is able to rise above politics in order to focus on the big picture. “The response [to his appointment] in the education community has been so overwhelmingly positive because nobody feels like they’re going to be excluded,” Norton said. Reville faces a full docket this fall, between the retirement of state education...
...Rappaport had set up some lights. There were very few details left unattended to, from the perfectly cooked pink lamb chop main course to the black-edged white linen dinner napkins that matched the runway theme. And little details tell the tale. Because beyond all of his branding and focus, it's nailing the little things that has gotten Ralph Lauren, 40 years after he started, to the top of the heap...
...dark side, but never fully embrace it. That's quite all right. 3:10 to Yuma reminds us that well-made westerns - precisely because they are such a ritualized and conventionalized form - have an ability to isolate moral conflicts in spare, essentially unrealistic, contexts and thus focus our undistracted attention on those issues. Who says remakes are always inferior to the original film? And who says the western is dead? Especially when a movie is as entertaining as this one, you begin to think this formerly beloved genre is due for a revival...
...celebrities such as footballers David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo to keep the case in the public eye and encourage the police to redouble their efforts to find Madeleine. But by the time both submitted to lengthy interrogations by police late last week, the couple themselves had become the focus of the investigation...
...launched it as her project when she had a fellowship at the Aspen Institute, of which I am president. For the past three summers, fund members have convened a meeting in Aspen of educational entrepreneurs, and at the July 2006 gathering, they decided to make New Orleans a focus of their involvement. Some were worried initially that the task would be too daunting. I argued that if they were not willing to take on such a challenge, they should find an easier line of work, such as managing a hedge fund...