There's been a lot of nonsense written about SATC the TV series in recent weeks, often by journalists who never watched it (in fact, one writer of a recent piece cited that achievement as a point of pride before then listing his reasons for hating the show, reasons he presumably pulled out of his ass).
"It is a noble achievement to take a point from Barça," said the Rubin coach, Kurban Berdyev.
Damon Hill was made BBC Sports Personality of the Year for his achievement in finishing a point behind Michael Schumacher in the Formula One drivers' championship, while Sally Gunnell, in the year she became the first woman ever to hold simultaneously the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles titles, had to be content, as she so rarely had been on the track, with second place.
Sophisticated supporters of Nafta have always acknowledged that the treaty would in itself produce only modest economic gains -- a few percent added to real income in Mexico, a few tenths of a percent added in the U.S. The real justification of the agreement was political: it gave Mexico's reformers an achievement to point to, a promise of better things to come.
So while his r?m?eflects mainstream achievement, a moral compass points to the Native American poverty he skirted and dire straits he saw in and near Guthrie, Okla.
A danger now is that there will be a backlash, and that genuine achievements will be overlooked: a point that has been made recently by Narcis Kabatereine, Uganda's head of vector control.
Despite our hyper modern world, we are still at a point that "female" achievements should be acknowledged and highlighted.
In Qatar, there is an expected difference of 153 achievement score points between a school with zero implementation of the TIMSS science topics and a school with full implementation of the TIMSS science topics.
Sgt Shaul's vehicle was struck by anti-tank fire in the Sajaiya neighbourhood of Gaza, raising the possibility he may have been captured by Hamas, a nightmare scenario for Israel but for Hamas something that would be an enormous achievement and a turning point in the war.
The results revealed a significant indirect effect of maths anxiety on cognitive reflection through maths achievement (estimate point -.007, 95% CI = - 0.014 to - 0.002).
