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Going into last night’s Cambridge School Committee election, one of Patricia M. Nolan ’80’s campaign advisers told her not to count on success. “Almost no one wins the first time,” Ethel Klein, who now works as a pollster in New York, told the rookie challenger. But defying conventional wisdom, Nolan came out above all other candidates, as she and 28-year-old Cambridge teacher Luc D. Schuster unseated incumbents in an election process that rarely favors the underdog...
Supporters present at the vote-count were quick to congratulate the underdog winner...
Prior to the vote count, the enthusiastic and soft-spoken Schuster, now the only teacher on the School Committee, said he planned to serve the Cambridge school system whether elected...
...Healy viewed Harvard’s expanding presence in Cambridge as a vital piece of the Cambridge economy both from a prestige standpoint and as a major employer. “In addition to Harvard, MIT and the City of Cambridge are also major employers and we can count on the fact that our top four employers would not be moving to the sunbelt or overseas, which represents stability,” said Healy. Beth C. Rubenstein, Assistant City Manager for Community Development, maintained that Harvard is an integral part of the Cambridge economy but does not stifle its ability...
...isn’t the only or even the best way of giving students chances to improve their grades. Instead, there needs to be a designated period of about two weeks in each semester during which the first and only set of midterms will be administered. These tests can count for about 15 percent or 20 percent of the grade, just as they do now, and can fairly be expected to cover all material in the course up to the mid-point. Apart from these, professors can retain the cushion offered by the second midterms by giving two or three...