Word: successes
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...could it be possible that "the peaceful continent" and "the most generous donor of development aid in the world" fails to exist on the world stage? Its success in building "an attractive social, economic and political model" is no accident. It rose from a somber period in human history where war and death besieged civilization. It exists because hard and sometimes cantankerous work led to complex compromises. (See pictures: "Behind the Scenes with Obama in Europe...
...away from stretching her own conception of what art is. She has worked on Hollywood films (Hair and Ragtime, among others) and directed the 1985 Broadway revival of Singin' in the Rain, which got a critical drubbing that humiliated her. ("A catastrophe," she called it later.) Even after the success of Movin' Out, she had another misfire with The Times They Are A-Changin', in which she used a circus motif to illustrate the music of Bob Dylan--a conceit that no one much liked...
...well at tackling extremism. The vast majority of its people practice a moderate form of Islam, but a small band of homegrown extremists is wedded to a bloody jihad; in 2002, for instance, the bombing of two Bali nightclubs killed 202 people. But of late, Indonesia has had impressive success netting hundreds of suspected extremists and re-educating youths susceptible to the call of militant clerics...
...simply giving students a high school diploma to making sure they are ready for college or a career. In other words, he wants to make sure a high school diploma means students actually have the skills they need to compete in an increasingly global workforce. Obama would define school success by how much improvement students make from grade to grade, no matter where they started, as opposed to the current system, in which schools are judged on students' absolute performance, not their progress. Obama's model is similar to the one we pioneered three years ago here in New York...
Yesterday’s success was critical for the Crimson considering its upcoming schedule...