Word: letterer
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Sources at Dow Jones & Company Inc. say that Marcus Brauchli, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, is submitting a letter of resignation, with his departure to be announced as early as Tuesday morning. The separation is said to be amicable and Brauchli is likely to stay with the company in a yet-to-be-determined capacity. One source says a search is already under way for the next managing editor...
...appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties sanctimony, but it was correct in its observation that socialism and political Marxism are more or less gone from the hearts and minds of Cambridge’s collegiate population. Why? The letter recommends a task force to locate the source...
...imparting knowledge that will be tested on state exams to preparing for a driving test. “There are things the student has to know,” he said.BEYOND THE TESTSDespite criticisms, Fowler-Finn’s approach to running the schools may be working.In a recent letter, a representative from the Governor’s Office of Educational Accountability, a state agency that audits the school system, said that Cambridge Public Schools have shown a “broad and high degree of improvement.”“I think it’s important...
...task force, which is comprised of mayor-appointed residents, distributed a letter that enumerated their objections and described the proposed plan as “a vague draft that fails to address community quality of life issues...
...letter also called for improvements that include public transportation, constructive impact mitigation, and more open spaces...