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Parents voiced concerns about the overall quality of student life in Cambridge Public Schools during a school climate subcommittee public hearing last night—the first step in the district’s plan to refocus attention on ensuring students’ physical and emotional well-being. The meeting was prompted in part by results from a 2006 parent attitudes survey, which indicated that issues relating to school climate—including student safety, behavior, and discipline—were widespread concerns. In response, the district adopted the maintenance of a “safe, nurturing, and healthy school...
...with the right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people of the U.S. may refocus their ire, or at least part of it, from beleaguering the avaricious Wall Street charlatan toward berating that namby-pamby parasite, the artist...
...what he called “door-to-door salesmanship” to recruit a wide range of local talent. He sat down with engineers and scientists in other fields—ranging from basic immunology to chemical engineering—and explained that if they were willing to refocus their efforts on AIDS research, he had the funding to cover it. “These are people that made their reputations in other fields,” Walker said. “That kind of new perspective is what we’re really counting...
...We’re able to take our basic mission, which is a profound interest in the power of governance and to solve real problems, and build to create these professorships and provide significant support to students,” Mauzy said. In enacting these changes, the institute is refocusing its mission on providing real-world solutions to problems facing democratic governance, officials said. “We aim to turn the Institute into the world’s leading center for understanding the reciprocal relationships between the quality of the institutions and practices of democratic governance and the persistence...
...climactic kill. “There was so much emotion and physical energy, and we were a little bit tired from [Friday’s] match,” McKinley said. “After that first set loss, we realized we had to step it up and refocus our energy and control our errors.” The Crimson responded quickly with a 13-5 run in the second and cruised to a 25-14 win. The third frame saw back-and-forth action—the game featured five ties and four lead changes. Late in the frame...