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Compensation for managers of Harvard's $35 billion endowment rose this year, but salaries for the highest-paid officials were far lower than the massive pay packages that have drawn criticism in recent years...
...while his biography still leaves many skeptical of his foreign policy credentials, at least some voters are drawn to Obama because of his time abroad. "I lived abroad as a young child and I know what a lasting impact on the way I looked at the world," said Rebecca Hutchinson, 54, from Deerfield, New Hampshire, after attending a house party for Obama in August. Hutchinson, who works on the Democratic staff of the New Hampshire House Minority Leader - a Clinton supporter -spent third and fourth grades in Pakistan, and she sees Obama as the only candidate who can undo...
Since its enactment in 2001, President Bush’s widely-criticized “No Child Left Behind” act has drawn attacks from every possible front: From the left for being too vague in defining “national standards,” from the right for being an “unfunded mandate,” and now, from Cambridge’s premier repertory theater for being all-around not good enough. Playwright and actress Nilaja Sun’s solo performance makes “No Child”—directed...
...funny how filmmakers are drawn to Matheson's subject of post-apocalyptic annihilation, yet feel the need to "fix" the story and welsh out on its conclusions. Each of the I Am Legend adaptations embroiders or softens the original, offering a vision its makers see as more pertinent to their time. Not that there's anything morally pernicious about changing a book when it becomes a movie. The only question that matters: Does the new thing work...
Frankly, I’m kind of insulted by the premise of this title. What does Peter Cameron know about my pain? Who is Peter Cameron, anyway? I would normally assume that the boy drawn on the front is putting his hand in front of his face like that because of a headache, or maybe even deep, adolescent angst. But unlike Peter Cameron, I don’t like to make assumptions. For all I know, the boy could be studying palmistry...