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Zaidi added in order to impress the importance of the issue on the administration, students must “model the behavior we expect them to implement...
...rails against "the cult of Catcher in the Rye." The cover of King Dork is a faux red Catcher cover, with the title and Salinger's name erased and replaced by Portman's. "I always felt a lot of people might have been faking the adulation of it, to impress their parents or their teachers," says Portman. Plus, he knew that writing about a disaffected, sensitive young man with father issues would invite comparison. "So I said, 'What if the character made it a symbol for everything that is wrong in the world?' I thought it would be funny...
...here's the dilemma: If Nissan doesn't knock out consumers with beautiful, sculpted steel or impress them with new technologies, how will it stand out? Some analysts think it won't. "Ghosn came in and turned a carmaker on the verge of bankruptcy into a company with operating margins around 8%," says Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto analyst with UBS in Tokyo. "He turned the company into a sustainable one. That is a huge improvement, but that is perhaps the limit of Nissan...
...often under women's care. "I saw a nine-year-old girl, who had just tested HIV-positive two weeks ago," continues Kim. "I had never seen a CD4 count so low; I could not believe she was still walking without blatant evidence of infection. I tried to impress upon her father the urgency of the situation, the full import of such an immunocompromised state, the dire need for ARVS, urging him to return as soon as possible for adherence counseling with a second caregiver. His response and reply shocked me. There is no hurry, he tells me. I need...
...strong. "I think in the last few years the selectors have failed to make the hard calls," says Lawson, who believes Hayden shouldn't have been picked for the last Ashes tour, when he struggled until he notched a century in the last Test. But even that didn't impress Lawson. "It was a self-centered hundred," he says. "When his team needed quick runs, Hayden played for himself." Australia's conservatism would encourage England. "Australia have some great players, but even the greatest players get tapped on the shoulder by Father Time at some stage," Dennis Lillee wrote recently...