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...Even if it doesn't go that far, the small budget ($16.5 million) les Ch'tis has already produced the mini-miracle of enticing French moviegoers into laugh away some of their own enduring regional prejudices. The movie tells the tale of Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines...
...last week’s Cambridge school committee meeting, community members interrupted a budget presentation to debate whether the standardized test scores of city public schools demonstrated that the schools were improving. The contention centered around the issue of whether a high percentage of students passing the tests was significant in light of a relatively low percentage achieving proficient scores. While many specific complaints about what the scores tell us are justified, we believe this debate masks a larger issue–the effectiveness of state standardized testing in general. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a series...
...trade-off between keeping tuition costs down and reacting to higher food prices.“If we’re going to keep food at the same level, we’re going to have to figure out how to channel moneys from other uses into the food budget,” Faust said. “We need to address it within the issues of cost.”In an open letter to the Harvard community last week, HUDS executive director Ted A. Mayer said that “the cost of food has risen precipitously world...
...this unhappy reality than the current uproar over changes in dining hall menu. During the past month, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has been decreasing the number and variety of its meal offerings. They blame the change on increasing food prices—which of course, like any budget-based argument at Harvard, seems not to convince many...
...conference said Washington's neglect of this crucial area is exacerbated by its scientific spending at home; AAAS president David Baltimore, the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was particularly scathing about what he said would be a 13% real term decrease in the U.S.' health research budget from 2004 through the 2009 proposal, at a time when the "opportunities in biomedical research outstrip any other moment in history...