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...voted against Young, she said that the ratification of the contract “wasn’t a contentious process at all.” “We have one goal in mind: to do best for all children. When that is your driving theme, you lay down your differences,” she said, adding that this does not necessarily mean the committee members have differences on this issue. The committee responsible for the facilitating the superintendent’s transition into the district will meet today and Friday at the mayor’s office...
Harvard Law School will lay off staff members in response to budgetary constraints imposed by University administrators, acting Dean Howell E. Jackson said Monday. The likely layoffs come amidst continued estimates of a 30 percent decline in endowment value by year’s end and a corresponding reduction in the endowment payout—a major source of funding for the University’s different schools that accounts for 40 percent of the Law School’s annual revenue. A recent University request for a 10 percent reduction in the Law School budget has made staff layoffs...
...once said, “In the final analysis, the end is pre-existent in the means.” If sustainable peace is to be an end for Sri Lanka, the government must embody a new set of values as it mops up the conflict and begins to lay the foundations for a new society...
Thus, the child who is not taking part in the typical parent-child dance - exchanging smiles and glances, pointing at something of interest, seeking attention - is missing out on a lot of learning and failing to lay the foundations for more complex social behavior. Rather than become experts on social cues, as most humans are wired to do, these children, observes Klin, tend to focus on the physical world - the opening and closing of doors and the properties of inanimate objects...
...sector, says pink-slip trips are particularly common among those who receive sizable severance packages - i.e., the lawyers and Wall Street types who are confident they'll find another job soon enough. ?If they have the time and they have the money, people are stepping back after a lay-off and thinking, 'Hey, why not?" she says...