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...Geoff N. Epstein, another member of the Newton School Committee, said Young also had success in improving Newton’s special education programs...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Young To Enter Amid High Expectations | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...These lies will not be able to move the great pyramids I have constructed in the Egyptian economy." - In a letter written from his cell in an Egyptian prison, saying he was being framed by "enemies of success" (AP, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hisham Talaat Moustafa: Egypt's Condemned Tycoon | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

This is a life lesson. That's right. [Laughter.] It's none of that sort of ... and don't cry about it either. [Laughter.] So he's been good. But we try to set him up for success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...couldn't be more radical or more all-American: Anyone can be anything if they are willing to work hard enough at it. This is inspiration with an edge. The honors student who wrote her Princeton thesis about being black in the Ivy League knows that the difference between success and failure can be cruelly random. She knew lots of bright kids growing up, she says, "and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God." She had friends who could have thrived in college, but their parents didn't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...point where he can be naughty," she says, "like you walk in the room and it's like, 'Where'd you get that sock?' " The family has learned to limit Bo's range of potential destruction by keeping doors closed. "We try to set him up for success," she says with a knowing smile. (See pictures of Bo and other presidential dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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