Instead of giving up on the hope that led him to the United States, Aynaoui took flight on his own sweat and spirit, steadily climbing to No. 21. "I would say I am self-made, especially when your own parents don't want you to go into a direction," said Aynaoui, who answered the academy help-wanted ad without his father's blessing.
"My research at the academy helped to fill in the blanks," Mr. Berman said recently.
The Vietnam trip, for instance, led to further sessions in which experts recruited by the academy helped retool that country's approach to film sound.
After all, we have the finest generation of teachers ever and being part of an academy helps put the power back in their hands".
The problem, he said, is that producing the show in New York City costs $2 million more than producing it in Los Angeles at the Staples Center, which the recording academy helped design.
In the last week, some backers of films among the 10 nominated for best picture complained privately that the academy helped "The Hurt Locker" by delaying its reprimand while the balloting continued, rather than taking public steps when the violation became public in news reports in The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere about two weeks ago.
I would say the US is capable of winning a World Cup in the next 20 years or so, and I believe the Cosmos can help in that process, in exactly the same way as Barcelona and their academy helped Spain".
"By the time a girl is 12, she is expected to concentrate on her role within the family, looking after siblings and contributing to the running of the household," says Meller, whose academy helps develop the potential of talented west African children.
There is much evidence that well-functioning training and education programs — like Job Corps, the National Guard Youth Challenge and Career Academies — help disadvantaged youths.
Mr. Fleming's criticism of the myriad ways that academies help cadets stay on track to graduate can equally be seen as a strength, resulting in 80 percent of entering cadets graduating four years later, regardless of race — a rate of success that would be the envy of virtually any civilian campus in this country.
