Word: halle
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Whether he was ignoring College rules by smoking in the dining hall, turning a blind eye to after-hours skinny-dipping in the House pool or drinking Irish coffee at one of his Masters' teas, Kiely as a person, many say, managed to carry off the role of rebel with the utmost sophistication and panache...
There can be no question, however, that he leaves a physical legacy at Adams--the most obvious being the gloriously renovated dining hall, a project that was completed under his direction. Few know that it was Kiely who also spent years fighting vigorously for the glass-ceilinged private dining hall next door. After several architects, Kiely finally found one who thought the challenge of enclosing the space in between two Adams structures was doable...
...Friday hundreds of Muslims in the Boston area held a "March Against Genocide" in front of Boston's City Hall in support of NATO's actions in Kosovo...
Finding the truth is one of the most difficult hurdles for a memoirist. Gail Hall Howard, 52, writes memoirs and teaches memoir writing at Connecticut's University of Bridgeport. "There isn't just one version of the truth," she maintains. "We remember certain things in different ways, and our understanding changes over time." Everyone sees childhood through grownup eyes. The memoirist's task is to bring back the reality of the child's view filtered through adult perceptions and make that truth into a compelling story...
While these mayors can't yet proclaim victory, the health of public education in many cities has been so lousy for so long that even modest progress gets hailed as a breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...