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...teachers, school administrators--to reach their primary audience. Along with weekend shows aimed at family audiences, these theaters subsist on weekday performances for school groups. But getting schools to commit to a field trip to the theater--instead of, say, a day of preparing for standardized tests--is becoming tougher in the age of No Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks' Deadly Weapons, a play about teen violence, the Fort Worth school district stayed away because...
...much fun: there's a Congress and an army of interest groups to be tended. Bush was successful at first. He passed his tax cuts, his No Child Left Behind Act; he tilted the playing field toward the needs and desires of corporate America. He will have a tougher time getting his way in a second term because of the soaring budget and trade deficits--which, taken together, economists call the current-accounts deficit. "This is the trap door for the economy," says Robert Shapiro, a moderate Democratic economist. "We will soak up more than 80% of the world...
...lived in exile four different times during his life, who was arrested ten times and who spent more than two years in prison, most of it in solitary confinement in a 4-by-8 foot cell. He had a price on his head at least five times. He is tougher than most...
With the two wins under his belt, the nervousness has subsided and Byrd is now focused on what he can do to help Harvard at the upcoming Eastern Championships, where he will be facing even tougher competition...
...hard enough to keep up with changing consumer tastes. But staying ahead of the technological curve can be even tougher. Just ask Motorola, which surrendered its dominant U.S. position in cell phones by ignoring the impending switch from analog to digital technology. Or its rival, Nokia, which missed the popularity of clamshell phones. Recognizing an impending technological shift is just part of the challenge; companies also have to guess right about when to embrace it. "It's like a pitch coming in--you have to decide if it's a fastball or curveball," says Bain director David Harding...