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Hermann's new partner, Pilati, has come to appreciate those qualities and declares that he and she are alter egos. "I finally work with somebody who really knows what it is to be a designer today," he says. "She understands all the difficulties, all the pressures that I am living with. So she's not just a number person. She understands everything I need to succeed...
...Most of the candidates said improving achievement in sixth through eighth grade was a key goal. And everyone agreed with the committee’s decision to temporarily alter the district’s method of assigning students to schools, which balances student bodies based on socioeconomic factors. The change was prompted by an influx of more middle class students this year...
Despite being chastised by Democrats and Republicans alike, even MoveOn has benefited from the commotion by gaining a higher profile than ever before and showing its ability to alter the political debate. After Giuliani's counter-ad in the Times, the organization fired back with a TV spot titled, "Giuliani: A Betrayal of Trust", accusing the former New York mayor of being "AWOL" from the Iraq Study Group when he missed meetings while giving high-paid speeches to corporate clients. (Citing schedule conflicts, Giuliani eventually quit the group without ever attending a meeting. His campaign now says he resigned because...
...Levin-Reed, which reached the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, is the most carefully engineered measure designed by Democrats to limit the scope of the war. It directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq and alter the remaining forces' mission to three smaller roles: force protection, training of Iraqi forces and counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda...
...section dynamics, like any group dynamics, are complicated, and no single formula predictably yields lively discussion. But by the same token, no mix of people, however “naturally” incompatible, is doomed to make a terrible section. A single strong personality has the power to completely alter the chemistry. And if no such personality is already present, students have a responsibility to fill in and act the necessary roles until the blend seems right. If no one is speaking up, someone needs to act the provocateur. If the atmosphere is poisoned, someone needs to act the peacemaker...