Suffice it to say that if the program had been held a few stops uptown, at the Apollo Theater, several of the entertainers might have been chased off by a clown dressed in rags.
Since the recession began, the Georgia program has been held up as a national example, and a close look shows that it has pleased employers and produced steady paychecks for workers.
So far, the Headache Schools CME program has been held 6 times, training a total of 615 doctors from urban and rural communities.
To date, programs have been held at institutions like Yale University, Barnard College, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Taller Experimental Grafica of Cuba, and closer to home, Purchase College, Manhattanville College and the Briarcliff Manor, Tuckahoe, Scarsdale, Greenburgh and Yonkers school districts.
Knowledge of the program has been closely held, yet inside the Bush administration some officials are skeptical about its chances of success, arguing that past efforts to undermine Iran's nuclear program have been detected by the Iranians and have only delayed, not derailed, their drive to unlock the secrets of uranium enrichment.
The program has been credited with holding mortgage interest rates at near-record lows and slowing the nationwide decline in home prices that threatened to send the economy into an extended slump.
Gov. Jeb Bush's educational program in Florida has been held up as a model for its combination of aggressive testing of schools' performance, backed by taxpayer-financed vouchers, which his brother President Bush is proposing for the nation as a whole.
On Monday the network said that its 2013 MTV Video Music Awards will be held on Aug. 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, marking the 30th year of that program, which in recent years has been held either in Manhattan or Los Angeles.
The program has been extended through 2017.
The program has been an undisputed success.
