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...wiggle room. The amendment is rather vague on specifics, so he has asked the state supreme court (not friendly to Bushes, if you remember 2000) to interpret it. What do the class size limits mean practically? Does the average size of classes in a school, or maybe a district, count? How much freedom does he have to change school zones within districts, bus students to less crowded schools and implement double shifts and year-round schools. He will end up exploring every possible solution to this measure. He needs to because it will in all likelihood define his second term...
Gomes’ tea parties have become a local institution. Alumni and past University affiliates who return to Cambridge can count on the weekly tea even if they hardly recognized the changed University says Gomes, who is also Plummer professor of Christian morals...
...another blunder, the campaign produced posters bearing the names of both candidates. When the council tallies the cost of the campaign, these posters will count against both Darst and Simon’s budgets, effectively charging the campaign twice for each poster...
...average, Harvard students will probably attend 10.5 interviews before they graduate. Not that this is an official number, by any means, but I figure by the time you count the admissions interview, a slew of extracurricular “what vision do you have for this club/organization/a cappella group?”-type grillings, consulting case inquisitions, and then throw in a couple of mock interviews for good measure, the number is hovering somewhere around the double-digit mark...
...whole phenomenon of evaluative interviews suggests that poise, erudition and schmoozability count as much as the value of our ideas. The justification seems to be that the first requirement of a public citizen is the ability to engage with the larger world: a successful education would teach students to schmooze, and to schmooze well...