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...wild card is Syria, which has a strategic alliance with Iran, backs Hizballah, and serves as the logistical bridge between Tehran and the Lebanese group. Syria is in a position to put considerable pressure on Hizballah to cooperate. But unless Syria is either put under unbearable pressure, or is offered the carrot of a resumption of negotiations aimed at the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, President Bashar Assad is unlikely to make a deal with Washington, especially at the expense of Hizballah and Iran...
...Lebanese army showed up and pushed everyone back. One of the bombs hadn't exploded and was still live. Hizballah minders were also present. They're laying low in the town, but when something happens they swarm over it. One scruffy-bearded young man confiscated a reporter's memory card when he took an unapproved picture...
...bulk of the meeting was dominated by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk, who presented the findings of the “Report Card Taskforce.” Fowler-Finn had commissioned the taskforce to reduce the number of report card formats used in the system. Currently, the Cambridge schools employ 64 different formats in 13 schools...
...Cambridge School Committee ignored the issue of whether it will renew the contract of Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn and instead spent most of its time on “report card reform” during its meeting Tuesday. Even the educational audit by the Office of Educational Quality and Accountability (EQA)—which most agreed paints a worsening picture of student achievement—received only a few minutes of discussion...
Following the 150 minute session filled with talk about report card reform, a few minutes spent on the achievement report, and no mention of the superintendent’s contract, the committee adjourned to executive session. There it discussed the contracting of an attorney to negotiate the Fowler-Finn contract. The name of the attorney was not disclosed beforehand, and the committee—over Walser’s objection—did not cap his fees...