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...outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. While the fall inauguration ceremonies are usually full of pomp and circumstance—the new president receives ancient symbols of office including two silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest college record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650—Sunday's official changing of the guard passed with little fanfare...
...network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans' prestigious private colleges, has rebounded. And the city's notoriously underperforming school system is showing signs of improvement, with charter schools stepping in to revamp many troubled schools...
While the surveyors interviewed parents who have withdrawn their children from the schools, the study has been criticized because parents who had chosen private or charter schools without ever sending their children to the public schools were not surveyed...
...Despite a signed contract saying a major research question is why people opt out, there was no survey done of private school, charter and parochial parents,” said School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan '80. “It excluded about 30 percent of our city's families with children...
...Gaza is over. After the firing ceased, Gazans dashed to the bazaar to stock up on emergency supplies, certain that Israel would close the borders. Then families flocked to the beach to celebrate an end to months of fighting. The Islamic militants of Hamas--whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, an aspiration the group has sought to fulfill through scores of suicide bombings against Israel--are now the lords of Gaza, with 1.5 million Palestinians under their rule. The end of the power struggle in Gaza marks the opening of a critical new chapter...