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...announced by Superintendent Carol Johnson last week are staggering. A full 900 positions will be eliminated, including 403 in teaching. This translates to a six-percent reduction in the city’s teaching staff and a corresponding increase in class sizes, just as City Hall was turning its focus to boosting school performance. The city cannot look to the state for help, as Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 has promised to hold education spending constant, but not to increase it for struggling districts...
...recruiting schedule, the Law School will also offer prospective employers the option of using the same timeline as in years past. Although most students interviewed said that they were in favor of the new calendar because it would improve job opportunities and allow students to better focus on their interviews, some logistical issues remain to be solved. “This means you get all your interviews done without any of the other distractions like classes, extracurriculars, or journal-work,” said Law School student government president and third-year student David K. Kessler...
...manuscript. “Leukemia is the most important childhood cancer,” said Liu. “I’m concerned about the children, and what factors are associated with the disease.” According to Christiani, the study’s original focus was not related to diet, but rather attempted to determine whether living in areas with strong pollution from petrochemical industries increases the risk of leukemia. The subjects’ diets were gathered as preliminary information that would later be used to adjust for environmental factors. “We didn?...
...alarm is partly a reflection of its own precarious situation in the face of a widespread backlash against globalization. The commission is now scrutinizing the E.U.'s own stimulus schemes for potential discrimination against foreigners. In focus are plans such as France's $10 billion move to bail out its car industry by requiring firms to source car parts from local suppliers...
...Iraq's provincial councils will elect regional governors and focus largely on local issues, but the election results were seen as an important bellwether of the national trend for next year's parliamentary election. And Allawi is hoping to grow his party's share of the vote. "We need to see a departure from sectarianism and the establishment of national institutions for this country, starting from the judiciary, and have, really, the rule of law prevail in Iraq," says Allawi, complaining of corruption and a Shi'ite sectarian bias in the al-Maliki government. But as much as Allawi...