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...board of education adopted a budget resolution in December that included an overall 10% reduction - a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers are inevitable. "The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits," says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn. "No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those big-ticket items." (See pictures of politically engaged teens...
...that these victims made efforts to list their clients (who did not have direct accounts with Madoff) or that they had multiple accounts. But many pension funds, like Orthopaedic Specialty Group PC, which had 140 investors, appeared as just one Madoff client. Orthopaedic Specialty Group is the Fairfield, Conn., pension fund mentioned by Dr. Henry Backe in the Senate Banking Committee hearings last week. Backe was seeking from the committee clarification on allowing his employees to file individually...
...Larry Summers is a little like being run over by a tank with a Lotus engine and to find the experience educational," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. Such pastimes may come naturally to the first son of two noted economists who was born in New Haven, Conn., in the shadow of Yale, and grew up in Philadelphia not far from the University of Pennsylvania. Not only did he become, at 28, one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard history, but a decade later he also went on to win the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given...
...Ivoryton, Conn. and Lowell House
...both shoulders. “It’s pretty exhausting but it’s a good indication of how intense HMSD [Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving] is and how hard we train,” McLean said of his challenge. Although the Simsbury, Conn. native was the obvious highlight of the competition, McLean was not the only member of the Crimson team who shone against Brown. Harvard registered many standout performances on the day, capturing ten of the meet’s events. Sophomore Zac Ranta continued his spree of domination, claiming both...