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...throwing their hotel room TV off the balcony. There's a little too much prudence in the whole affair, and after an initial giggle, the TV's impact seems less than satisfying. Yes, the party's over, and it was an entirely different Rolling Stones that emerged as the era gave way to sailor Mick prancing in soap suds and endorsement deals, all the way to present day, where, with the same waistline and hairstyle seen in Cocksucker Blues, he continues to sing "Street-Fighting Man" to adoring crowds...
...true that Mick loves it, but felt obligated to prevent its release to ensure the band could continue to tour? Does its director consider it as an honest document that in all its messy debauchery, anger, humor and impunity represents the true spirit of rock n' roll of the era? Who knows. Rock n' roll may never die, and certainly not before it gets old, but the 82-year-old Frank - who was present at the Pompidou Center to open his retrospective the previous night - was too tired to make it to the screening. Still, the show went on. That...
...least half the dinner menus I've scanned in the past year, entrées topped with a poached egg: halibut, salmon, pasta, chorizo, ratatouille, tuna tartare, mushrooms, chicken, crab cakes, asparagus, salad. And it always works, adding a richness and silkiness to everything, a protein-on-protein, Atkins-era overindulgence that makes me psyched to be an American. "Hey, this is delicious, but wouldn't it be better if we plopped some bird ovum...
...needed for the 21st century is an education revolution." Rudd pointed to a slide in workers' productivity. A decade ago, Australians' output was at 85% of U.S. levels; by 2005 it had dropped to 79%. Rudd argued that the country lacked the skills to prosper in an economic era when the main action would switch to Asia and would be dominated by knowledge enterprises. Labor, he said, would invest more in education and set higher standards of achievement for teachers and students...
...things that we wouldn't have tried before," he says. Indeed, Shawn's turnaround is due in part to aggressive new strategies that Shelbyville schools are using to keep kids like Shawn on the right path. They've brought their credit recovery program into the digital era, adopting NovaNET, an online software program that Shawn was able to run through at his own pace and on his own schedule. The high school also opened a separate Student Achievement Center, located at a local college, for kids who have fallen behind and would be older than their classmates. Shawn wasn...