Word: mustering
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...supersoft vocal style and influences ranging from Jimmy Buffett and Cat Stevens to Ben Harper and De La Soul, Johnson has perfected the admittedly picayune art of contemporary beach music. If the rest of the country hasn't yet heard of him, it is likely because he could barely muster the ambition to get a recording contract in the first place...
...point in the second game, Harvard won 13 consecutive points. Against a significantly shorter Lafayette team, Denniston, who had an Ivy League-leading four kills per game last year, posted a match-high 15 kills. By contrast, the entire Leopard squad could only muster 18 kills...
...Worse still, the U.S. has been unable to muster the requisite international support to reinvigorate sanctions against Iraq by making them "smarter" - allowing the resumption of normal trade with Baghdad to assuage concerns about the toll 11 years of sanctions have taken on ordinary Iraqis, but tightening up controls on the sale of weapons or technologies that would improve the Iraqi war machine. Russia blocked the changes when the U.N. Security Council met to review sanctions against Iraq at the end of June, and the Arab neighbors on whom policing such "smart" sanctions would depend have been less than sanguine...
...disarmingly simple: What is a failing school? Given all the stories we hear of kids who don't have books - and wouldn't know how to read them if they did - it shouldn't be so difficult to pluck out the scores of schools that don't pass muster. But what about the thousands more where students may not all be excelling but where teachers work with the meagerest of resources and, with a little encouragement, just might turn the corner? In other words, how do you tell the really bad schools from the just plain middling ones...
...Japan has pinned its hopes on Koizumi. He'll need all the support he can muster. His proposals for reform range from updating securities laws to overhauling the judicial system. He wants to eradicate bad bank debts in under three years and create 5 million jobs in five years. Some economists accuse him being vague on specifics but credit him for having the right ideas. His fiercest opposition comes from within his own party. LDP bureaucrats fear losing access to government funds from which they've long doled out political patronage. Koizumi needs a big election victory to quiet...