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Incumbents Alfred B. Fantini, Joseph G. Grassi, Susana M. Segat, Alice L. Turkel and Nancy Walser are running for reelection, while Fred Baker, Vincent J. Delaney, Marla L. Erlien, Richard Harding Jr. and Alan C. Price are aiming to get elected to the School Committee for the first time...
Rowling also had a hand in choosing most of the adult cast members. She specifically requested Coltrane. Others, like Richard Harris as Dumbledore, Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall and Alan Rickman as Professor Snape came straight from a wish list of actors that Rowling provided the producers. She gave Rickman and Coltrane precious bits of information about their characters' futures. "There's an awful lot revealed about Hagrid in book five," says Coltrane, "and Jo thought it was important for me to know." Like what? "I could tell you," says Coltrane, "but then you'd have...
...thus they can’t be counted on to deliver the fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard to come by. In fact, it seems obvious that these arguments are dubious at best. As Alan Sokal, one of the main antagonists of the science-as-a-social-construct view, points out in an unpublished letter to the New York Times, “What could [science critic Andrew] Ross possibly mean? That the law of gravity is a social law that men and women can change...
...deal with the realities of the war on terrorism in their curriculums. At Centreville High School in Clifton, Va., science classes are looking at such issues as, Is it possible to poison a reservoir? What does anthrax do to the human body? At Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, Calif., Alan Haskvitz interrupted his seventh-grade lesson on the Boston Tea Party to discuss the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. "We pulled out maps," he says. "We talked about how Arabs are not necessarily Muslims and vice versa. We handed out newspapers, and for the first time, instead of just...
Both of Summers’ major administrative appointments—the other being Columbia University’s Alan Stone, soon to be Harvard’s Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs—have had significant service in Washington...