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Under Plan E, the city's most powerful official is the city manager. The City Council sets policy and makes laws which are carried out by the city manager. The mayor serves as chair of both the School Committee and City Council and is chosen by the council, not the voters...
...statement released after the board's ruling, MIT officials said they supported the decision and were "deeply disappointed" that SAE students had chosen not to appear at their Oct. 26 hearing before the board...
...pares down the list to the eight or so to be considered seriously. Other kids may informally ask teachers for recommendations. Not with Achieva. Counselors help kids choose whom to ask for recommendations and then edit the cover letters and resumes that students are told to give to the chosen instructors. There's even strategizing on the art of asking. "Make sure you ask for a strong letter. You have to say strong," Elissa Hull, a counselor in Achieva's Cupertino center, insists to senior Will Chen. If the teacher demurs, she says, Chen should yank back the request rather...
Communication between Wahid and Megawati will become vital in the months ahead, as a new Cabinet is chosen and the political odd couple set about governing the country. "Because Gus cannot read documents, the question is who will control the flow of information to him," says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Cabinet minister. "There will be fierce competition over who is going to whisper in his ear." Or his mobile phone...
...They also have more frequent job-related accidents and have to struggle harder to maintain their at-work focus. And when workers suffer, companies suffer. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO of Boston-based Circadian Technologies and author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results can be disastrous. According to Moore-Ede, industrial deaths and injuries related to shiftwork cost the U.S. economy as much as $1.5 billion a year, and airplane crashes...