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...conflict erupted between freshman Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley and the rest of the council during yesterday’s meeting, after a discussion of pothole repair gave way to a critique of Kelley’s administrative approach. Councillors assailed Kelley for his tendency to request longer, more quantitative reports from City Manager Robert W. Healy than do the rest of his peers. The council spends a portion of each weekly meeting discussing reports from the city manager, who is responsible for implementing policy initiatives that the council promulgates. Last night’s tussle began during discussion...
...series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...
...jump. Her leap of 5.76 meters meets the 5.70-meter qualifying standard for the ECAC Championships.Smith’s performance also puts her at the top of the Ivy League standings in the long jump.“It was the first time I had taken a longer approach,” Smith said. “I usually only take about six strides and I went to about 10. I was expecting to do a little bit better but I didn’t expect to PR by a foot and a half...
...third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie. ... The further films...
...write a check for $50 million for interdisciplinary science research and create the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a new University-wide standing committee that will oversee the initiative. Creating and funding a cross-disciplinary authority marks an innovative and commendable change in Harvard’s approach to science, which has traditionally been governed by insular and competing departments.The decision to create HUSEC is in line with recommendations made by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which released its final report in December. While the committee expected a favorable reception from President Derek...