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...school in 2002 after the then-acting principal, Paula M. Evans, resigned amidst a controversial restructuring plan. Local elementary school principal Len Solo served as interim chief immediately following Evans’s resignation. In a letter written shortly after her resignation, Knight urged the district to pick her replacement from inside the CRLS ranks.“A leader from within the existing CRLS leadership team, who has been immersed deeply in the work and has the demonstrated commitment to build on that work, will surely take it to the next level,” she wrote...
...pick up a good general newspaper, you read a lot of things you don't expect to read, much of which are important and make life more interesting...
...that he couldn't get away from. "It was a natural," he says. "He and I are about the same age and grew up at the same time, in the same part of the country. I really dreamed of playing professional baseball, but he was a second-round draft pick! And then to get devoured by your own hometown, to the point where you become mentally...
Anything seems to go in design today: styles clash, boundaries blur and hipper-than-thou types talk of "hybridity." And few practitioners better reflect the pick-and-mix trend than Barcelona-based product designer Jaime Hay?n. The 32-year-old Spaniard has a taste for the theatrical, so calling the latest overview of his work (at the Aram Gallery in London until Nov. 4) "Stage" is entirely appropriate. Playfulness is a hallmark, too. Having won a cult following in 2004 for his zany yet unsettling space-invader figurines?which were, not surprisingly, big in Japan?Hay?n then broke through last...
After interviewing Belich and her staff with questions like "If your consumer was going on vacation, where would she go?" and "What color floor tiles might she pick?" ScentAir's mixologists researched their inventory of 1,500 aromatic oils to find the ones that would produce the right blend to capture the essence of the stores. Over the next six months, about 30 concoctions were FedExed from ScentAir's lab in Charlotte, N.C., to the Sony offices in New York City; a steady stream of comments and suggestions flowed the other way, until a final pool of five candidates emerged...