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...been the Flying French Canadian connection that has gotten the job done all year for Vermont. The previous weekend, Eric Perrin and Martin St. Louis (both from Laval, Quebec) registered three of their team's four goals in a 4-3 come from behind over-time victory over Harvard...
Democratization or the Return of Authoritarian Rule in Cote d'lvoire?--by Tessy Bakary, Universite de Laval; Barbara Lewis, Rutgers University; and Cathharine Boone, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Coolidge Hall, Room...
...School Committee has been paralyzed by its failure to hire a superintendent after dismissing the black incumbent, Laval Wilson, last February amid criticism that his management style was too aloof. The removal has sparked bitter charges of racism, and last week a leading candidate withdrew his name because of the continuing divisions. The council proposal would empower the mayor to hire and fire the superintendent. Critics worry, however, that such a move could open school doors even wider to political patronage...
...leaders. More than half of the 45 members of the Council of the Great City Schools, a consortium of urban school districts, have superintendents in their first or second year on the job. "No private industry could effectively survive this kind of turnover," says former Boston superintendent Laval Wilson, who left his position earlier this year. Says Joan Raymond, superintendent of Houston's schools: "The shortage is critical. I must hear 10 times a day, 'I wouldn't want your job for anything...
...period. Weight gains ranged from 4 kg to 13 kg (9 lbs. to 29 lbs.). But the difference in the amount gained was much less between twins than between subjects who were not siblings. Concludes Claude Bouchard, a professor of exercise physics at Quebec's Laval University: "It seems genes have something to do with the amount you gain when you are overfed." Some sets of twins transformed the extra calories into mostly fat, while others converted them into lean muscle...