Word: director
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...superintendent of schools in San Diego. You get a telephone call at 6 a.m. one Sunday with the news that a black male assistant superintendent has murdered a white female director of program evaluation and committed suicide. The police are at your house by 7 a.m., and the media are about to spread like an oil slick all over this one. What...
...city superintendent's job is one of the purest forms of crisis management this side of the Oval Office, and one of the most discouraging. "Within the ground rules of the system, it's just about impossible to succeed today at that job," concludes Chester Finn, director of the Educational Excellence Network, which tracks educational issues...
...book (by Tom Wolfe), a top director (Brian De Palma) and some of Hollywood's hottest stars (Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis). But the pundits are predicting it will disappoint...
...cream cones or platters of rich food. In the words of Columbia University psychiatrist Jack Gorman, "When things are lousy anyway, who cares about cholesterol?" Many individuals become violent and abusive, usually to those closest at hand. At the House of Ruth, a Washington shelter for battered women, deputy director Dan Byrne reports that the men who are doing the hitting are talking more and more about the economic pressures they feel...
...increase in the incidence of so-called bias crimes this year. That trend is reflected in the rise in racial assaults recorded by Klanwatch, which monitors such crimes across the U.S. for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. "The national recession has created general unrest," says director Danny Welch, "especially among white males vying for jobs they didn't use to have to compete...