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...show with the most nuanced take on gender now is actually a sitcom: 30 Rock. Through comedy-show producer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)--a woman middle manager in an overgrown-boys' field--it has dealt with topics from misogynist swear words to the gap between baby-boom and Gen-X feminists with a gender-consciousness that's unashamed but unafraid to make fun of itself. (In one flashback, teenage Liz sues her high school to become placekicker on the football team; she flubs a kick and cheers, "Yeah! Feminism!") Liz isn't powerful enough to be in a mafia...
...asked him to temper his often bombastic remarks. Simmons—who chairs the School Committee as mayor, a position chosen by the city council from among its own members—pledged to improve communication between the two. “I am looking to certainly close the gap and level of acrimony that has risen between those bodies,” she said. In other business, sophomore school committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc D. Schuster made a motion to discuss at later date the possibility of integrating an International Baccalaureate (IB) program...
...Crimson didn’t shine for long. Harvard was forced to play from behind throughout the second game, when the Pride took an early 8-2 lead. The Crimson showed signs of a comeback by responding with a 7-1 run. The scoring streak closed the gap and tied the game up at nine with a solid block by Weintraub, who also completed one solo block and two block assists against Springfield. But the Pride quickly found their rhythm again, setting off on a run that left Harvard in a nine-point hole. It was too much...
NCLB is fouled up because it doesn’t have enough muscle, and the consequences are severe. Although national scores have improved slightly and the racial achievement gap is narrowing in some parts of the country, NCLB fails to accomplish what its proponents said it would. Fourth graders can read in South Carolina but not in Tennessee. Eighth grade test scores are improving, but high school scores are plummeting...
...include a couple of major items, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. Defense budgets have always omitted certain items - nuclear weapons, for example, fall under the stewardship of the Department of Energy. But with the two wars currently under way costing about $12 billion monthly, the gap between the budget presented by the Pentagon and what America will actually spend on the military in 2009 is going to be in the region of $200 billion - as much as the entire U.S. defense budget cast in 1981 - when it includes the $100 billion requested last year that Congress...