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...last night, as newly-appointed Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn outlined his goals for the year and took questions from about 80 parents gathered at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the atmosphere was one of open discourse, smiles and even laughter...
Last night’s forum, organized by the parent group Cambridge United for Education (CUE), gave Fowler-Finn a chance to address parents on many of the same contentious issues that led to the ouster of former Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro last year...
When he was appointed to take the helm of the district last spring, Fowler-Finn was seen by parents and city officials as a savior for a city school system plagued by gaps in minority and underprivileged student performance, declining enrollments and a drawn-out battle over school mergers...
...pleasure. We invented the action-hero Governor. We wrote that particular comic book. And now California, so often on the cutting edge, is following in our footsteps. Us, a little dairy and turkey-raising state on the upper Mississippi. This is great. It's like the townsfolk in Huckleberry Finn who attended the Duke and Dauphin's theatrical show and then told their neighbors how great it was, so they could go and be snookered...
...defending champion at 1,500 m, feels so good at that distance, he says, that "my goals are to win the 1,500 m and take a medal in the 5,000 m." He'd be the first ever to do the medal double at Worlds, and only "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi won both Olympic golds, back in 1924. Why is El Guerrouj trying? "I needed a challenge." Expect more drama in the most glamorous races: the men's and women's 100 m. With defending champion Maurice Greene of the U.S. in a slump, the men's race...