Word: headful
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...Duncan says he followed Rogers around "like a puppy dog." Duncan proceeded to co-found a small school with his sister. He then ran the magnet program for the Chicago board of education and was the system's deputy chief of staff, before being tapped to serve as its head. His 7˝ years as superintendent produced mixed results. While he oversaw modest gains in student achievement, Duncan's tenure was most notable for his willingness to try anything, regardless of ideological association--expanding charter schools, paying students for good grades, experimenting with teacher merit pay and shutting down failing schools...
Like the athletes in every episode of Shaq Vs., I found that the man had gotten into my head. Panicking, I asked him how he was going to beat me. "I probably can't," he said. This clearly was a trick, perhaps a way of distracting me while he appeared out of my boom box as a genie and dunked a basketball on my head. Seriously, I feel better every time I mention Kazaam. But then O'Neal said, "There's a difference between confident and arrogant. I'm a humble person. I'm not going up against a fifth...
...made his career. His anger spurred an obsession with celebrity justice and helped him pioneer a new genre of journalism--one that was part memoir, part editorial, part fact. He came to love the smell and ambiance of the courtroom and had the ability to put it into your head. During the O.J. Simpson trial, I had dinner with one of the many reporters covering the case. The guy said he was ready to give up. When I asked him why, he replied, "Because Nick's here...
...What will happen if the traditional Western powers do not halt Iran’s progress in nuclear capability? The answer may lie in the bizarre story of “The Arctic Sea” and an unannounced, clandestine trip by an Israeli head of state to Moscow. Simply put, Israel has proven itself unafraid to take direct, dramatic action to keep Iran in check. If Israel will not hesitate in playing tough with a country as powerful and potentially belligerent as Russia, the West cannot assume it will hesitate to use a similar “shoot first...
...quadlings, don’t be too quick to mock the river. Fell free to rejoice tomorrow, but the silty sinks will soon head out there, too. All of Harvard’s hydrants will be checked sometime this fall, Boucher said...