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...Boston. When the issue turned to addressing the causes of the decline, the School Committee members diverged even more sharply. Nolan said that she was happy that the roundtable had taken place because it was “the first time enrollment decline has ever been its own agenda item in at least five years.” Richard Harding, Jr., a second-term school committee member, disputed this, saying that all the committee members had been concerned with the issue but that they had other chief priorities in the past. “It’s not like...
...Boston. When the issue turned to addressing the causes of the decline, the School Committee members diverged even more sharply. Nolan said that she was happy that the roundtable had taken place because it was “the first time enrollment decline has ever been its own agenda item in at least five years.” Richard Harding, Jr., a second-term school committee member, disputed this, saying that all the committee members had been concerned with the issue but that they had other chief priorities in the past. “It’s not like...
...Cannes' marquee genre item was X-Men The Last Stand, which after its Cannes world premiere opens today on 3,688 North American screens. Gitesh Pandya of Box Office Guru predicts this third installment of the X-Men franchise will rake in $108 million over the four-day Memorial weekend...
...Scanner Darkly was the second of two films at Cannes this year by writer-director Linklater, and I'll start by saying it's better than the other Linklater item, Fast Food Nation, which so far has tied Richard Kelly's Southland Tales as the Festival's biggest flop. This one is an adaptation of a 1977 novel by that crucial and deeply disturbing SF visionary, Philip K. Dick. It's Dick's memoir of his addiction to painkillers and other drugs, as refracted through the sci-fi-delic prose style of his later years...
...million Price paid last week for a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin, the highest ever for a musical instrument sold at auction $192,000 Winning bid for a rare 1960 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar, the third highest price paid for an item at the same auction...