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...very smart choice of songs covers both the canonical ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Jailhouse Rock," "Burning Love") and the merely fabulous ("Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do," which accompanies an ecstatic amusement-park bit with high-bouncing superheroes). Of course the climax is "Viva Las Vegas," with 40 Elvis impersonators and a dozen chorines filling Mark Fisher's staircased set and the Big E back onscreen, overseeing the riot of color and movement...
...kids had plenty of reasons to love the books too. Percy hates school, has a lot of attitude and is given to back talk. His first supernatural act in the book is to make a toilet violently discharge its contents over an adversary--an episode that was, probably wisely, omitted from the film. Even the gods come off hipper, and enhanced by mnemonic imagery. Who could forget that Apollo is god of the sun after he turns up in a flying red convertible Maserati Spyder...
...Obama Administration has a plan: take the 5,000 worst schools in the U.S. and give them more than $4 billion over three years to get a lot better - fast. It's the emphasis on speed that makes this endeavor something new. The government has thrown big money at education for decades, with very little to show for it. Even under NCLB, most of the failing schools that were forced to make changes did the bare minimum required by federal mandates...
...could go back and tell yourself to not do one thing during the financial crisis, what would that be, and why? -Kathy Ackerman, Minneapolis I've obviously thought about this a lot, and I believe that the major decisions we made were the right ones. But I've got a list of things that I would like to have done better. For instance, when we sent the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] proposal to Congress, it was a three-page outline. It was not intended to be a complete request. It was intended to be a starting point for negotiation...
...workers weren't always able to explain how and when to eat the cookies, officially referred to as biscuits. Some people scarfed down their entire five-pack quota in a single meal, leaving them feeling ill; others thought they should eat only one pack a day. "There's a lot of confusion out there," said Raymond Chevalier of the Adventist Development & Relief Agency. "But even if people are getting some cookies to supplement any other food they can find, that will keep them going...