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...plan only puts into writing what reformers have increasingly come to recognize: that good managers can make a huge difference, no matter how much money they have to work with. Leonard Hamm, the new chief of Baltimore's school police, says he has seen firsthand how a talented principal can reverse the decline of a school. "I'm an overly simplistic guy," he says, "but man, it's not rocket science. It takes one person saying, 'This isn't going to happen...
...Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic. So is the search for meaning. So too, perhaps, is writing about hopelessness and meaninglessness...
...facing a tough draw--their first game is against Argentina, one of the favorites. The women, led by Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm, are out to avenge a tough loss to world champion Norway...
...telephone interview from Los Angeles, Geffen Records official Roy Hamm said yesterday that the press release was the first stage of a hoax building up to the presentation of an award to Perry...
...Batman Returns she is a lot more, thanks to Waters, who wrote Heathers, the brilliant 1989 tale of feminine competitiveness and desperation (and on Batman Returns got story help from Sam Hamm and dialogue "normalizing" from Wesley Strick). "We didn't want to make her a macho woman," he says, "or a sultry, coquettish uber-vixen curling on a penthouse couch. We wanted her tied deep into female psychology. Female rage is interesting: we made her a mythic woman you can sympathize with. Catwoman isn't a villain, and she isn't Wonder Woman fighting for the greater good...