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...stamp on her. "That puts something first, besides funny," she says. "My show's about a hundred other things." Like, oh, AIDS and Hurricane Katrina--for which she devises cheery mock-folk songs--and Brokeback Mountain, which she turns into a video game. Drysdale, 27--who spent her grade-school years in Versailles and Vancouver, B.C., and dropped out of Sarah Lawrence to sell T shirts at Chicago's Second City (before joining the troupe)--is that rarity in the tired-out world of stand-up comedy: a real original. A hit at the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival, she doesn...
...students in grades three through eight take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams in reading and English this week, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS)-+ officials expressed mixed opinions over the use of standardized tests to gauge student performance in the wake of last month’s SAT grading debacle. The College Board, which administers the SAT, revealed last month that over 4,400 tests had been misscored in October, one by 450 points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which...
...combined + 26 on the season. And the latter, an eighth-round pick in 2002, was just named the team’s 2005-2006 Man of the Year for his contributions to the northeastern Pennsylvanian community, including his “adoption” of a second-grade class...
...defiance of the laws of first-grade math, the sum of all of these parts feels a lot smaller than the ultimate product. One of the production team’s mistakes might have been pirating off of filmmakers who are still making films, so its effort fails to stand out among other recent releases. McGuigan and Smilovic might have benefited from copying Tarantino one step further by looking for inspiration from a couple of decades before their own time...
...attorneys who worked on the case, said that Shakir was “very, very well thought of here” and that “she provided invaluable help” throughout the summer. Lidia Rekas, who has known Shakir since they were both in fifth grade, said that her last memory of Shakir was when Shakir helped her prepare for the Graduate Management Admission Test. “We stayed up all night and ate pizza and I slept on her couch that night,” Rekas said. “Shirin’s absence leaves...