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Newly elected Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent, Jeffrey M. Young, unveiled a proposed timeline for remedying the “middle school issue” at last night’s school committee meeting—a move aimed at finalizing a set of concrete action plans for the initiative by April...
While school committee members thought that the new deadline was an appropriate move for a new superintendent who may need time to familiarize himself with the situation, several cautioned against further delaying action on the issue...
...does Yoko Ono fit into the group? I wanted to have more women than I could find who were older and quite well-known. She brings moral sentiments and aesthetics. Aesthetics is a very understressed dimension of civic action: music, song, beauty, posters, logos, all these things...
...demanding that Iran forgo its right to enrich uranium even for energy purposes in exchange for a series of economic and diplomatic rewards, but Tehran has ruled out renouncing that right. And Israel has repeatedly warned that if the diplomatic outreach fails, it is prepared to resort to military action to stop Iran's nuclear development. (See an interview with nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei...
...break the deadlock. Under a treaty sponsored by the IAEA, permanent inspectors and surveillance technologies could be installed in the current or future civilian nuclear-development programs of all 22 of the Arab League nations, plus Israel and Iran, backed by the threat of immediate sanctions and possible military action for any breaches of the agreement not to build weapons. This would allow Iran to save face and maintain its ostensibly civilian nuclear program and, in exchange for the decommissioning of Israeli weapons, reassure the rest of the world that Iran isn't going to get the bomb either. Former...