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...likely to make the next West Wing (or Knight Rider). But smaller shows survive that once wouldn't have lasted a season. Take NBC's finely detailed small-town drama Friday Night Lights, which draws as few as 4 million viewers a week. It was able to air a third season this year because NBC signed a cost-sharing deal with DirecTV - one of the very satellite providers that have helped atomize the audience...
...being an office in the U.S. Senate. There are high ceilings, marble everywhere and a view of a courtyard. But half of his space is on the second floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, and the other half is divided between two unconnected offices on the third floor, so his 19-member staff is always running up and down. Also, there's no hot tub. None of the Senators have hot tubs, but I still think that's wrong...
Soon after starting his job as superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools in 2008, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district's 104,000 students. The findings were grim: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had fallen to 67%. One in five dropped out. But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered "highly mobile," meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students...
...operate--three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. "It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass. "What's it like to separate a third- or fifth-grader from their parents...
...more tallies towards the end of the second period, followed by an unassisted 2:33 score by sophomore Dean Gibbons and another unassisted goal, this time from senior Nick Sapia. The Crimson entered the locker room tied 4-4 at the end of the half.The Hoyas opened the third quarter with a solitary goal, followed by Gibbons’ second unassisted tally of the game at 0:25. The Crimson kept their scoring streak going into the fourth period, as Travis Burr found the net thirty seconds into the quarter off of an assist from Gibbons.Georgetown recorded three more tallies...