Word: baldwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sybil Knight, who has served since 1998 at the Maria L. Baldwin School (formerly the Agassiz School) on Oxford St., will take the helm of the Cambridge Rindge at Latin School (CRLS) Monday...
...Baldwin School, Knight was known for her consensus-building, her ability to listen, her clear decision-making and her knowledge about instruction, according to Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro...
Knight was central in getting the name of her school changed from Agassiz to Baldwin, the name of the first black school principal in the state who headed the Agassiz School for 33 years...
...getting hard to tell a good lie--or at least it must seem that way to Sandra Baldwin, the first woman to be named chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and, as of two weeks ago, the first to resign the post. As far as anyone knows, Baldwin had not told a fib in years, but the last one she did tell was a doozy. On her widely publicized resume, she misrepresented the school from which she earned her bachelor's degree and listed a Ph.D. she never finished. The lies hung around until an alumni magazine threatened to reveal...
...consolation to Baldwin, she is not alone in her dissembling. Last week Washington fire chief Ronnie Few agreed to resign when his college degree and a fire-chief-of-the-year award turned out to be fabrications. In the past six months, coaches at Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt were all caught with fiction on their resumes. And these followed a parade of high-profile folks accused of falsifications, including Pat Robertson (claimed he saw combat in Korea), Senator Joseph Biden (inflated his law-school class rank) and historian Joseph Ellis (made up stories about parachuting into Vietnam...