Word: detractions
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Cambridge Public School Committee members questioned whether a proposed roundtable discussion on the system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that...
...Arts and Sciences (FAS) will not pay for the initiative during that period, Fitzsimmons added. FAS faces structural budget deficits in the coming years that may exceed $100 million by 2010, according to a report released in January. Fitzsimmons said that expanding HFAI’s scope will not detract from the admissions office’s endeavor to increase the number of students from families with annual incomes below $40,000, the group most directly targeted by the original program. In fact, he said, “we’re in the process of redoubling our efforts...
Fitzsimmons said that expanding HFAI’s scope will not detract from the admissions office’s endeavor to increase the number of students from families with annual incomes below $40,000, the group most directly targeted by the original program...
...feminism for the last 40 years, but we acknowledge differences,” she said. When asked if his own wife was deferential in the way described in his book, Mansfield laughingly responded, “In an ironic way.” The irony, he explained, does not detract from her deference. The program, filmed on March 15, was aired on Saturday at 9 p.m. and again on Sunday at 6 and 9 p.m. It will reprise on March 26 at 3 p.m. on C-SPAN...
...sixth straight victory, defeating non-league foe Wentworth in three frames (30-23, 30-24, 30-18) at the Malkin Athletic Center. Harvard spent most of the game practicing on-court situations and trying different rotations, rather than focusing on the Leopards’ attack. But that did not detract from the squad’s overall level of play. “I thought it was a good game for us,” co-captain John Freese said. “We have a big game tomorrow and we played well. We already had some momentum, having...