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...them. The project is part of an initiative, introduced by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in June, to motivate low-income students to perform well on standardized tests. “This is one of several student motivation proposals the Department is developing,” David Cantor, a spokesman, wrote in an e-mail. “It has not been approved by the Chancellor or Mayor,” he added. Fryer, who has been leading this project and was appointed the Chief Equality Officer for the city’s Department of Education earlier this...
...weeps again, sitting by Anabella before a group of priests, ministers, a rabbi, a cantor and a Muslim Koranic chanter in the Angelica Lutheran Church in Los Angeles' Pico-Union district. Her pastor, the Rev. Frank Alton of nearby Immanuel Presbyterian, is preaching her into her new life here under a kind of benevolent house arrest. Alton's text is Leviticus 19: 33: "The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Alton concludes, "The New Sanctuary Movement...
...Loesser was born into an educated German-Jewish family that prized classical music; his father was a piano teacher, his brother Arthur a keyboard prodigy and later a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. To the Loessers, popular music was infra dig, but Frank loved it. Like the cantor's son in The Jazz Singer, or pert Owl Jolson in the Tex Avery cartoon I Love to Sing-a, he had to battle his family's resistance to mainstream pop. Indeed, Loesser's nearly operatic score for The Most Happy Fella might have been his way of saying, Papa...
Reports by The Crimson and The Boston Globe verified 22 of the names on the list, including Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead; Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University; Kim B. Clark ’74, former Harvard Business School dean and now president of Brigham Young University-Idaho; Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan; Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University; David W. Oxtoby '72, president of Pomona College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president...
Reports by The Crimson and The Boston Globe verified 22 of the names on the list, including Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead; Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University; Kim B. Clark ’74, former Harvard Business School dean and now president of Brigham Young University-Idaho; Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan; Steven Knapp , provost of Johns Hopkins University; David W. Oxtoby '72, president of Pomona College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Harold E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president...