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...heard behind the suicide sequences of movies like “The Royal Tenenbaums.” These are not, or at least should not be, the career aspirations of any musician, no matter how many women have broken his heart or how much his life resembles a chapter from “Angela’s Ashes...
...book is not about my legal case. Although I deal with it in the first chapter, it's about 5% of the book. And I know because I counted the words. When I first started writing the book, that hadn't even happened. I put it in the first chapter because there's an elephant-in-the-room quality about it. But the downside is that a lot of people have had the impression that it is some sort of tell-all book about my legal debacle...
...will mark the brothers' third financial bonanza in show business, the first taking place when they sold their struggling indie-movie company to Disney in 1993 for $70 million. After bristling for years under the control-freak management of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, they ended the bitter final chapter of their Miramax reign on an up note. "After we signed our final contracts, we took all the Disney lawyers to a three-hour, raucous, rollicking dinner," recalls Harvey...
...Then the chapter lays out concrete steps that citizens and elected officials can take to decrease tensions between the police and the communities they serve. For example, it recommends that individuals get to know the officers who patrol their neighborhoods and that police forces “adequately train all officers in cultural sensitivity, racial profiling, and excessive force policies.” “The Covenant” is so valuable because it is filled with these kinds of practical strategies...
Almost a year after the president of the Cambridge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When...