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Furthermore, we would love to see a progressive-minded, efficient, imaginative and responsive person filling the role of superintendent. Cambridge schools are in dire need of creativity and organization; someone who could breathe excitement into the schools while balancing multiple needs within a limited budget would represent the ideal combination of talents...
...question of just how many "fans" are even bothering to contemplate Harvard's exit from the 1996-97 men's hockey season. The scenes in the Lynah bleachers on Friday and Saturday were enough to suggest that the composition of the Bright Hockey Center crowd is in much more dire need of a complete overhaul than is the team itself...
...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...
...follow Harvard hockey all season long are left to face the dire prospect of another trip to the frozen North, or maybe even two. Harvard will definitely play on the first Tuesday of the ECAC playoffs, stuck in the preliminary round for the first time ever; at this rate, that first game might just be played right here in Appleton Arena, against these very Saints. And even if Harvard wins that game, it might very well have to travel up to Clarkson again three days later for a three-game series against the likely regular season champions...
...bridge the gap until his pension checks started arriving. In the meantime, rumors still swirl about Simpson's hidden money. There is one piece of evidence that suggests, in spite of his protestations, that he just might have some free cash. Last summer, after he complained publicly about his dire finances, Simpson was able to come up with $685,248 to clear an IRS lien on his home...