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...weekend, PA has expanded to all-day runs on 159 screens in 44 cities, and according to early reports, it's headed for a box-office breakout - perhaps the highest three-day gross of any film showing in fewer than 200 venues. "Look out, cuz there's a freight train coming," an executive from a rival studio told Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, "and Paramount is going to make a TON of cash on this pickup. Cuz they ain't spending anything on it, and who knows where the ceiling is!" The box-office figures will make headlines, giving...
...haste to garland the new laureate: " 'Did you hear Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?' Answer: 'What for? For not being George W. Bush.' " @Fulmonster sees method in the Nobel madness, wondering, "Are the Norwegian Nobel Committee trying to force President Obama to 'be good'?" @chirdeep follows a similar train of thought: "So does this mean that the pressure is on for Obama to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan...
Since TTT does not train its teachers - instead simply providing funding for them to be taught in any number of different schools or programs - there is no one pedagogical philosophy that links its teachers other than a military, mission-oriented mind-set. But that common background has translated into effective instruction and classroom management, according to William Owings, a professor of educational leadership at Old Dominion University who has worked on two studies of the program. "Principals and other supervisors have reported that these teachers worked better with problem children, worked better with parents and worked better with colleagues...
...willing to bet that the plan Gelb laid out is close to what the Administration will decide to do in the next few weeks - two brigades, or 10,000 troops, will probably be sent to secure Kandahar city and environs, and two other brigades will be sent to train and advise the Afghan security forces. (See pictures from the Afghanistan election...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that the Administration's new plan for Afghanistan would likely include sending only one brigade to train and advise the Afghan security forces...