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...York City’s school system—which could potentially layoff as many as 8,500 people this year because of a loss in state aid—has criticized the use of seniority as the sole metric by which teachers are laid off. The argument put forth by Klein and others is that the merit-blind seniority clause does not ensure that the teachers who remain in school systems are necessarily the most effective...
...many similar incidents—well-worn visual tricks like the slow, spinning reveal of a chair’s occupant, DiCaprio ludicrously sensing the presence of his wife’s supposed murderer by stating, “I can feel him,” and so forth. These jarringly trite moments punctuate “Shutter Island,” to the extent that it ends up feeling more than a little stale...
...many joys of being in the concert hall rather than listening to a recording is in catching the gleeful brio Levine exudes. Sitting rather than standing at the podium (due to well-chronicled health problems over the past four years), he swivels fluidly back and forth like a six-year old left alone in a big office chair, dancing his feet across a wooden support bar like some frenetic organist pedaling a Reger fugue. Occasionally, you could hear him calling “Dyet! Dyet! Dyet!” in the syncopated passages of the first movement...
...really good game, back and forth,” Griffin said. “It literally came down to the last few minutes, which was exciting—they fought really hard...
...women’s water polo, the Princeton Invitational was a tale of two completely opposite days. The two games played on Saturday, one against Iona and the other against Wagner, were back-and-forth throughout, with Harvard (6-1) coming away with two competitive wins...