A few years ago, Millennium Park, a downtown centerpiece, opened behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget.
That photograph is still the centerpiece of the behind-the-counter décor at Johnny's, framed along with the cover logo from the July 21 , 1947 issue of Life, in which it was first published.
Since its inception in 2001, No Child Left Behind, the centerpiece federal education law, has injected long-needed accountability into our education system and invested in kids and schools that weren't meeting standards.
The bill rolls back many of the accountability measures that formed the centerpiece of No Child Left Behind, which passed with bipartisan support in 2001 and was signed into law a year later.
Though the temptation at these events is to skip that part and hide behind the centerpiece, it does pay to learn the cast of characters.
I recall a youthful Andrew Ross Sorkin seated directly across, but behind the centerpiece, from me, not much about the other five tablemates -- a mix of men and women.
There's local cult favorite Willie "Loco" Alexander's well-worn keyboard, drumsticks signed by Marky Ramone, Ric Ocasek's framed guitar pic from a 1979 tour, and the Rat Suite's centerpiece: the mirror from behind the Rat's bar, still festooned with stickers of bands that had played there.
Mr. Lamont has also criticized the No Child Left Behind laws, a centerpiece of Mr. Bush's education agenda.
The brick panel, measuring two feet by eight feet, will be the centerpiece of a study lounge behind the front door.
The No Child Left Behind act, the centerpiece of President Bush's education agenda, requires that states test students in reading and math every year in grades three through eight, and break down the results by race, ethnicity, income and disability.
