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...Japanese, the Japan Foundation, the nation's rough equivalent to the British Council or Germany's Goethe Institute, invites 500 foreign teachers from more than 50 nations to Japan each year for all-expenses-paid training programs. (Alimansyar is currently participating in the course.) The Foundation also plans to establish 100 Japanese-language hubs overseas by 2010, more than double those that existed just this...
...party's small-government purists, meanwhile, will insist that voters punished Republicans for going on a spending spree and that what the party most needs to do is re-establish an image of tightfistedness. The problem with this theory is while spending restraint is popular in general, so is nearly every specific spending program...
...unlikely alliance between pulp fiction and organic chemistry, Patricia Cornwell, author of the best-selling “Scarpetta” thrillers, will establish a conservation scientist position at Harvard to further close examinations of art materials...
...staunchest defense, Pizzotti will need to use a mix of young receivers and junior Matt Luft—as well as his height advantage—while keeping the D honest with occasional runs. The duo of junior Ben Jenkins and sophomore Gino Gordon has yet to establish itself against a legitimate league defense, and it seems unlikely that this will be the week for it.“This is definitely a different defense from a year ago, markedly better, and maybe one of the two best defenses I’ve seen in my 15 years...
...Cambridge Public School Committee voted last night. The change will stay in effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that each kindergarten class reflect the demographics of the entire incoming student population—which is determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director...