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...Madden took a position as a color commentator for CBS, immediately finding success with his blend of sharp technical insight and muddled diction. Among the classic phrases attributed to him: "He was standing in the hole waiting for something to develop...and WHAP!, he got developed." "Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon." He also coined the phrase "doink...
...people at the grassroots level that can help win an election and potentially change the country. He showed that you could win being who you are, and that the American people are willing to be leveled with and spoken to honestly… Not every campaign will have the success we did in igniting the grassroots and having them play such an important role in the campaign and the ultimate victory. But campaigns should try, because having people involved in their government is very good for this country...
...second contingent is the more dedicated music connoisseur—well trained in navigating the backroads of Pandora and avoiding Kiss FM and iTunes’s top 100. Harvard party music is banal and grating to their ears, and they prefer underground creativity to mainstream chart success. Their most likely criticism of a Yardfest artist: “Other people have heard of them...
...once he found it, he knew he found something that was really special.” Kincaid found the thesis exceptional enough to send it to her agent. HarperCollins then picked it up and published it in 2005. But according to Iweala, having this early success hasn’t made his career choice any more clear. “I remember walking into a bookstore and seeing it and thinking, ‘What do I do now?’” he says. Currently a student at Columbia University Medical School, the 26-year-old works...
...Bersin's seven-year term as San Diego education superintendent - at the time one of the longest in the nation - was notable for the vehement opposition it drew from teacher unions and school board members. Both groups decried Bersin's "Blueprint for Student Success" plan - which placed an emphasis on basic math and reading programs and a single curriculum - as limiting (and even, said some extreme critics, "fascistic"). By the time he left, a huge rift had opened between teachers and San Diego principals, over 80% of which he hired during his term...