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Committee member Joseph G. Grassi said the district's cumbersome hiring process are partly to blame for the system's failure to hire more black teachers...
Grassi said he favors letting "the superintendent hire teachers of color right away," bypassing a hiring process he said takes three to four months and means Cambridge loses many minority teachers to other districts that have streamlined procedures...
...School (HLS) suffers from "Harvard Hubris"--trying to be the best, the hardest and, for some unknown reasons, the largest elite law school in the country. The McKinsey & Co. study has shown that HLS is simply trying to do too much--and has made no one happy in the process. The staff suggests further expenses and an expanded faculty. A simpler, quicker, cheaper alternative exists, however, and it is even spoken of in law school circles elsewhere: Cut the class size...
...This process applies even to what many would consider purely moral issues. When Bush needed to ground his soul, he walked on the beach with Billy Graham; when Gore felt he had lost his way after Vietnam, he enrolled in divinity school, looking for "a systematic exploration of structures of right and wrong." He never finished, and when he left, his father asked him, "Did you find the answers you were looking for?" Gore Jr. answered, "I've learned to ask more intelligent questions...
...being comfortable around smart people who will tell him the unvarnished truth, on seeing through spin and personal agendas, on spotting the weakness in an argument. He prefers talking to reading, working through an issue verbally, Socratically. "I like discussions as an integral part of the decision-making process, because I believe I'm adept at reading people," he told TIME. "I get a feel...