Word: joel
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...Rhee came highly recommended by another prominent school reformer: Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City's schools. And Rhee was once a teacher--in a Baltimore elementary school with Teach for America--and the experience convinced her that good teachers could alter the lives of kids like Rhodes...
...mail or a phone in his bakery-home outside Managua. So I had to get a Kiva volunteer to go there with a cell phone and translate. My first suggestion was to change the name of the place from the Little Mango Bakery to the far more compelling Joel and Freddy's Extreme Cupcakery. I thought the bakery should switch its focus from empanadas and breadsticks to extreme cupcakes, for which we would charge $4 apiece. I would have my loan repaid in five cupcakes, assuming generous tipping...
...thought, however, that we should bring the price down to 16 córdobas, which is about 80˘. But Freddy assured me that in his neighborhood, that price would still make our cupcakes obnoxious luxury items. He also suggested that we tweak the name of the shop to Freddy and Joel's Extreme Cupcakery, since Freddy claims he's better known than I am in Managua, which I pretended to believe. When we started to talk about cupcake flavors, Freddy suggested vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pineapple and banana. From my experiences in cupcake-eating, I told him he might want to start...
...getting face time with America's rising political star proved more difficult. In New York, Notchi tried so hard to approach Obama at front of the Hammerstein Ballroom, where he was attending a Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen concert, he had guns pointed at him by policemen. He went to Obama's house in Chicago, but ended up being taken to a police station for questioning. (The director and the camera crew ran away when he got caught). Finally, three weeks before the election, his luck turned at a rally in St. Louis. The crowd was a 100,000 strong...
...look at the biggest decline in heart disease deaths in Massachusetts overall, you see a kink in 2004. It’s not a general [phenomenon]—something happened in 2004,” said Joel Schwartz, an HSPH and Harvard Medical School professor who was involved in research for the study...