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...report, Spence proposed an ambitious series of reforms focused on improving professional development for teachers. The school district should consolidate its goals for improving student achievement, Spence said. He also said the superintendent needs to appoint a deputy to coordinate the district’s professional development and student achievement offices, and he said the more than 30 administrators who work on developing district-wide curriculum should be reassigned or eliminated...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report: City Schools Disorganized | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

...upon each other, launching a ferocious civil war in which some 50,000 people are believed to havebeen killed. The issue was simply power, and its distribution both across different ethnic groups and among rival warlords within particular ethnic groups. In 1992, the victorious mujahedeen had agreed to appoint Tajik leader Burhanuddin Rabbani as president for one year. But Rabbani held on for four years, during which time the forces of Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar waged a vicious artillery campaign that turned the capital into rubble and killed thousands. Hekmatyar was sometimes joined on the battlefield by the Uzbek militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Afghans Just Can't Get Along | 11/20/2001 | See Source »

This year, the Ad Board will decide on a “case-by-case basis” whether to appoint a subcommittee or a single fact-finder, Avery said...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ad Board To Use Outside Investigators | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...proposed charter would establish the office of a directly elected chief executive mayor, who would have the power to appoint nearly all appointed city officials, subject to confirmation by the City Council...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate Pledges Council Reform | 10/31/2001 | See Source »

Coulter stressed that the political future of the Supreme Court is uncertain, since President Bush could appoint as many as three Supreme Court justices before...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Political Analyst Criticizes Liberals | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

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