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...candidates—such as the number of applicants or their biographical details.Despite its closed nature, the search process did receive some scrutiny from community leaders.In a March interview with the Cambridge Chronicle, shortly after the start of the search, Kathy A. Reddick, the president of the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP and a member of the search committee, lamented the lack of women and minorities on the list of candidates to replace Knight, who is African-American.And school committee members said the secrecy surrounding this first stage of the search did not make managerial sense.School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan...
...because Williams’ method is qualitative and his case simple, the book strains to reach 200 pages while staying fresh—the most recurring flaw is the endless repetition, much of which is because Williams quotes Cosby ad nauseum. The first and last chapters are largely dedicated to the comedian, and in every chapter in between, Cosby is worked into the introduction and conclusion. The book often reads alternatively as an extended transcript of Cosby’s speeches and an attorney’s brief defending the comedian...
This post-terror world Kalfus portrays is encouraging, but sadly impossible. This perfunctory meditation upon the fragility of national security isn’t explored until the last chapter, giving the novel a sour, discordant aftertaste...
...able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters. At this pivotal moment, the international community must offer Sudan one last chance to accept peacekeepers. If that fails, the UN should invoke Chapter VII of its charter to authorize a peacekeeping mission without Sudan’s consent. Critics of UN intervention argue that it’s unfeasible. In Darfur’s complex civil conflict even militants can be hard to identify—the word “Janjaweed” literally means...
...studying the genocide in Darfur; Andrea Rossi, the former research coordinator of United Nations Children’s Fund’s Innocenti Research Centre; Beena Sarwar, a journalist and documentary filmmaker studying human rights in Pakistan; and William Arkin, NBC News military analyst who will be writing a chapter for the upcoming book “In Search of the Perfect...