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This sounds pretty optimistic, and Larry Rhodes, a formerly homeless man who does "intake" at the shelter McDonald runs in Harlem, says the program has succeeded partly because it screens out drug addicts and hard cases.
El Teatro Campesino (the Farmworkers’ Theater) effectively used this character type in skits and actos (dramas) and succeeded in intensifying, with humor, the serious social issues presented in their performances.
And yet by relentlessly treating them as a big deal over the years, magazine folks have succeeded in making them a reasonably big deal.
Nobunaga was assassinated by one of his own generals in 1582, and Hideyoshi, who had started out as a simple infantryman, succeeded him.
When I didn't answer, he added in big letters: "It was a great mission, and it succeeded."