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...helped grow his family's liquor store into a $70 million online wine retailer and made his daily wine-tasting videos - at Winelibrary.tv - a staple for thousands of viewers. Gary himself boasts more than 850,000 followers on Twitter. Now, he's sharing the secrets of his success with the masses in his new book, Crush It! Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion. Vaynerchuk talked to TIME about the book, the growth of his online brand and his game plan for world domination - or at least eventual ownership of his beloved Jets. (See pictures...
...difference is small but critical because the new success rate of 26% falls below the threshold for statistical significance. That means that the odds of being protected from infection by the AIDS vaccine may be no better than chance...
...gamut from wealthy to downright impoverished, recently centralized all operations under three professionals experienced in doing all the things required to run a healthy school district: marketing, financial management and fundraising. Whereas in previous years schools were run by one priest who was ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the school, boards composed of lay professionals are very slowly becoming a necessity...
...some ways, the Catholic-school problem mirrors that of charter schools, a sector that is essentially competing for many of the same urban students. And Catholic schools have their own charterlike success stories, the most notable being Cristo Rey, a network of 24 schools focused on "breaking the sin of poverty." These schools have a unique program that requires students to work one day a week with a corporate sponsor in order to subsidize their tuition, which is kept as low as possible as a result of the labor...
Cristo Rey is an island of success in the Catholic ocean. But as in the charter-school community, there is an awareness that there needs to be a system-wide overhaul, lest another thousand-plus schools close over the next decade. "Just because you're devoted to serving others isn't a reason why you can't be operationally excellent," says Eriksen. "That's not really a culture that has permeated the Catholic Church for the last few decades...