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...most believably insane character, and clearly the one into whom the actor had most deeply sunk her claws, was the obsessive-compulsive patient Jackie, played by Sarah A. Sherman ’09. Her scuttling, screaming, cuddling, and lucid outbursts put one on edge. While her colleagues occasionally clowned for laughs, Sherman would not let us forget that her character was deeply troubled, if also somewhat sweet and silly...
...sell” to private donors, individuals, and institutions who might otherwise be opposed to funding programs perceived by many to be inefficient, expensive, and ineffective. Furthermore, the program does not spend money without measurable achievement. Unlike an underperforming teacher or an expenditure on unnecessary supplies, which both represent sunk costs for a school district, here, a student has to perform before money is spent. Yes, the concept of providing monetary incentives on tests is controversial, but if it works, it will streamline the education system and serve as an invaluable tool in correcting the inequality in academic performance. Students...
...talks; Fashion an agenda that includes substantial discussion on topics that have flummoxed legions of diplomats, and which some of the participants would prefer to gloss over; and Secure sufficient Israeli and Palestinian agreement on a draft statement from the conference to ensure that the whole enterprise isn't sunk before it begins...
...that's the point. Gore and the IPCC have been prophets of doom, laying out the threat of climate change for any who would listen. We cannot claim that we were never warned, and the message has sunk in for even the most recalcitrant listeners - witness President George W. Bush's White House summit on climate change last month. That success is a triumph for the rational scientific thinking that motivates both Gore and the IPCC. It's the idea that if we simply marshal enough facts, enough data, enough PowerPoint slides, and present them to the world, the will...
...thousand acres (2 million hectares) of grassland continue to turn into desert every year, and climate change, bringing yet more drought to dry land, hasn't helped. Still, if there hasn't been sweeping progress, there has been -for better and for worse - a lot of action. Beijing has sunk millions of dollars into the effort to stop the advance of the desert and has set up a system of laws to manage the land from afar; herders are being relocated and it's now forbidden to graze on badly hit areas. The slow process of regrowth has started...