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not only theoretical reform, not only academic reform, but actual practical reform.

The new plan includes a cap on construction costs, a youth academy to get more young people involved in baseball, additional free tickets to Nationals games so more disadvantaged youth can attend and a vital agreement to use private development to pay for costs around the ballpark.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

The need of the hour is to promote good cinema and for this it needs to be incorporated in the academic curriculum.

The nature of this information mandates confidentiality. I have contacted appropriate academic and regulatory agencies regarding this new information and accordingly, have suspended my collaborations with Professor Hwang,

It's really brought to the foreground this culture issue of what women face . . . in academic institutions and the world at large. It's a monster thing to turn around.

Geoff Mulgan

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Art, music -- all those things that we all know contribute to the full development of a young person and can actually accelerate gains in academic areas -- we can't just put those aside,

It's a really great academic environment and the teachers are great. I certainly give a lot of credit to the teachers and people in the district.

I told the girls being seeded 8th - we have nowhere to go but up. We beat Westford Academy in a dual meet already and when it comes to Sectionals - our kids usually rise to the occasion while some of these higher seeds can't handle the pressure and fold.

It's unbelievable how big this win is for us. We got swamped 5-0 by Webb Monday and that was the lowest we've been all season. To come back today and beat an undefeated King's Academy team is huge.

It's not just what you spend on the major-league payroll. In the last year we've purchased a Double-A franchise (in Springfield, Mo.), paid more than double for early-round draft picks and opened an academy in the Dominican Republic. We've made a much greater investment in international scouting and player development. Perhaps those things aren't as apparent as major-league payroll, but they're there and they have tremendous significance.

For instance, we used part of $50,000 this year to do some emergency maintenance work at Academy school. This has always been set aside for unforeseen repairs.

For her, academics has always come first. She's going to be surrounded by players with the same focus.

I'm not buying that crap. People overreact both ways. Notre Dame is down they'll never be back. Their academic standards are too high. You see them get buried faster than anybody else, and people are jumping on the bandwagon faster than everybody else.

I liked a lot of the girls there and went to some of the classes with them. They showed me that there was a lot of academic support there as well as good athletic programs.

I hope we can aid hurting peoples around us, ... May God bless you as study and learn and serve this new academic year.

Miranda Hart

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

That program is rather similar, so all of those students will live together in residence halls and there will be, again, a sort of academic and cultural component that comes into the residence halls.

It's nice to have kids to come out and meet us, and we get to meet them. It's kind of a little reward for them for some of the things they are doing in their academic program. I'm glad to be a part of it and it's kind of exciting to see smart young kids.

Ward Churchill

It's much more elegant and sophisticated to pretend it had to do with a violation of academic standards.

It's sort of central to the academics rooms.

J. Taylor

It's such a radically new way of thinking and the academy is forward thinking yet it is a traditional ceremony, but I believe recognition will come with time because we are going to see more of this.

Bob Hill

It's not a Division I school. It's a good school, but they should really think about going to Division III and putting academics first if they're not going to put any money in sports.

Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.

Ben Bernanke

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

Everyone at Starbucks Hear Music feels a strong emotional connection to Genius Loves Company, ... We truly appreciate the recognition the Recording Academy has given this album and are thrilled by the response the public has shown to this project.

The board of trustees believes the long-term interests of the Academy are best served by implementation of this change in the school name.

It was an inexcusable mistake, ... I regretted it probably some kind of nano second after it was out of my mouth. I apologize to everybody who was listening and to the people at the academy who have been great to me and to my partners in the booth.

I've had some great players, and I hate to compare players from different eras that have played for me. But I don't think there's too many players with a better combination of character, academics and athletics than Kane. He is a great one.

Richard Meier

I've experienced Rome since I was a student there in 1955 and at the American Academy in 1976. It is a place that I have spent time in, loved and absorbed. It never occurred to me that I would someday build in Rome. It didn't seem that it was in the realm of possibilities.

Ryan Anderson

It was a great academic school, and it fit me, basketball-wise. The players are awesome, and the coaches are real family-oriented.

It was a good transition from the academic world to Hollywood.

There's a big difference in managing a rather large, academic medical center that has a level one trauma center, a new children's hospital coming on line soon, a lot of critical health care delivery needs -- and (then) managing the security of the campus.