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Three months after the Cambridge School Committee voted not to extend her contract, Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro resigned Friday, ending her five-year tenure at the helm of the city’s public schools...
...have replaced cheetah-drawn chariots, and fewer revelers dress in snakes. Titian produced "some of the sexiest pictures that you will see anywhere," says Jaffé. He pushed "the envelope of how erotic you could go in a painting." Danaë, painted for Pope Paul III's grandson Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and using his girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus this was normal: he liked to dress...
...Alessandro had offered the plan as the latest in a series of proposals to merge or close several of the city’s 15 elementary schools in order to close a $2.6 budget deficit...
Several committee members said they were surprised by the councillors’ criticisms, and D’Alessandro said their objections went against earlier city council mandates...
...puts us in a very significant situation with the budget,” D’Alessandro said. “I was disappointed in the city council...