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...Even the terms of the proposed FTAA agreement indicate huge steps forward in the hemispheric agenda. A draft of the initial text was approved by negotiators in nine distinct trade sectors last December: a forbidding, 1,200-page document in which virtually every word is surrounded by brackets that indicate a lack of full agreement on the substance. "About the only things that aren't bracketed are the chapter titles," says a negotiator. The draft includes proposed tariff reductions on at least 7,000 products, from orange juice to rolled steel. As a map of negotiations still to come...
...Allston Task Force, which includes members of the Harvard community and other City departments as well as members of the civic and business communities of Brighton and Allston expressed concerns that the building did not incorporate enough green space, that it was too large, and that it needed a distinct entrance off of Western...
...often craves during the stress of midterms and finals, although these promising beginnings are often compromised by the addition of misadvised guitar riffs, or harsh, discordant vocals. Not to be defined solely as a “screamo” rock band, Enemymine also offers several songs with distinctly different sounds, experimenting with both electronica and jazz genres. Songs like “Passive Equalizer,” “Setting the Traps” and “Coccoon” have original instrumental arrangements, deviating from what might be expected from an angsty bunch of hard rockers...
Until 1993, Fairfax had a dual-track system, in which some students were prepped for college and others were dumped into vocational schools, which were viewed as dead-end depositories for underperforming teens. Now, though, Fairfax has five distinct career academies that bus juniors and seniors in from across this sprawling and diverse county for two-hour courses each school day and then bus them back to their home schools for regular coursework. John Whittman, Chantilly Academy's principal, estimates that 15% of the students are in advanced-placement or honors courses, 25% are special-needs or learning-disabled students...
DIED. JOHN LEWIS, 80, primary composer and musical director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet; after a battle with prostate cancer; in New York City. Lewis joined classical sensibilities with jazz improv to create his distinct sound and insisted that the M.J.Q. perform in tuxes in an attempt to make jazz as respectable as classical music. His compositions Django and Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West have become jazz standards...