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...Baby--focus on women who renounce yuppie partnering fantasies for loftier pursuits. In fact, just like Providence, Any Day Now has as one of its protagonists a fortyish Washington refugee who gives up on power brokering and a noncommittal boyfriend to settle in her native town of Birmingham, Ala., and practice civil rights...
...relationship between Rene, who is black, and Mary Elizabeth (the adult women are played by Lorraine Toussaint and Annie Potts, respectively) isn't exploited as a vehicle for preachiness, and as a result it feels remarkably true. With her fast-track life abandoned, Rene comes back to Birmingham believably confused and a little lonely. Mary Elizabeth is a homemaker married to her childhood sweetheart, a construction worker. She has a son and a daughter. The show's strength lies in the way these two grownup women fight and play and envy each other's flawed lives in the manner that...
Questioned after the conference, Birmingham emphasized that a sizable quantity of money was needed to attract high-quality teachers...
According to Birmingham, if the bonus were distributed evenly among all teacher candidates, the $20,000 signing bonus would be reduced to $23 dollars...
...Birmingham compared the incentive program to the "star system" in academia, where a sliding-scale pay system rewards high-profile professors with higher salaries...