TORONTO — Alex Rodriguez hit his 650th home run Monday night, leaving him within sight of a remarkable milestone.
That will not solve all the school's problems, but it would be a remarkable milestone in one village's struggle to provide good education for its children.
Inside the weighing-room, away from the awed crowd, McCoy reflected on his latest remarkable milestone with a mix of compelling honesty, riotous good humour and unexpected compassion.
Before the end of the year, he is scheduled to begin shooting two new films, and next spring he is slated to be in New York, where the Museum of Modern Art is preparing a full retrospective of his work, the first in more than twenty years that it has devoted to a mainland-Chinese filmmaker, and a remarkable milestone for someone his age.
But, on August 27th, Facebook's C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg, reminded the world just how dominant his company continues to be when, in a Facebook post, he wrote that it had just passed a remarkable milestone: three days earlier, a billion people — a seventh of the world's population — had logged onto Facebook.
In September, the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf celebrated its hundredth anniversary — a remarkable milestone in an industry that continues to experience upheavals, from the rise and fall of chain bookstores to the online invasion of Amazon, which wants to dictate the price of e-books and deliver the old-fashioned kind — physical books — to our homes by drone.
For all the empathy and acceptance directed at Mr. McGreevey, the event was nonetheless a remarkable milestone in the political and personal life of an elected official who rose to power by portraying himself as a quintessential Jersey Guy: one who believed in hard work, faith, the flag and the traditional (and implicitly heterosexual) family.
But, on August 27th, Facebook's C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg, reminded the world just how dominant his company continues to be when, in a Facebook post, he wrote that it had just passed a remarkable milestone: three days earlier, a billion people a seventh of the world's population—had logged onto Facebook.
Despite this remarkable milestone, significant further improvement is needed for the technological exploitation of this material.
He achieved the remarkable milestone during an Asia Cup game against Bangladesh in Dhaka.
