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...that oversees the superintendent, committee members disclosed on Friday. The incident adds fuel to an already contentious debate over the school leader’s contract.Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn issued a statement yesterday assuming responsibility for giving the two staff members access to e-mails from parents and citizens, and for failing to inform or solicit advice from the school committee. “I gave approval to the suggestion to add the names of two administrative staff to the recipients, and I take full responsibility for this circumstance,” he said.The suggestion to have the administration...
...contract at MGM, where his very first film showed at the very least that he was a gifted mimic of a great young master. Dassin's 20-min. version of The Tell-Tale Heart, released in late Oct. 1941, was possibly the very first movie to be influenced by Citizen Kane (which came out less than six months before). This short film, with Joseph Schildkraut as the guilt-stricken killer, is positively a-swill in Wellesian tropes: the crouching camera, the chiaroscuro lighting, the mood-deepening use of silences and sound effects. But MGM wasn't a studio that encouraged...
...would often venture beyond the epic. He made plenty of Westerns, some important science-fiction films, a few comedies (for which he was constitutionally unsuited). And he was willing to fight for directors he believed in. He assured the financing of Touch of Evil, Orson Welles' most satisfying post-Citizen Kane Hollywood film, by agreeing to star in it. He also offered to give back part of his salary so Sam Peckinpah could finish Major Dundee as he'd planned. (The story goes that the producers took the money but didn't allow the extra shooting. Even...
...send text messages or e-mails with community safety alert to participants. Text-a-Tip works the other way around, enabling community members to send safety alerts to the CPD so that the police can warn other people through the Cambridge Alert Network. These services are both provided through Citizen Observer, an Internet company that the Boston Police Department has been using since 2006. CPD spokeswoman Ashland Ruggiero said that Boston’s success with the programs sparked interest in starting a similar initiative in Cambridge and surrounding cities. Earlier this year, Harvard launched a program similar...
...question and answer session. “It’s great to see someone who changed the 72-year ruling party, [but] I think he didn’t really answer any questions,” Rocha said. But Cecilia Venegas ’11, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, called Fox captivating and sincere, adding that “he answered questions well...