Word: linda
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...Linda, Linda, Linda is another high-school drama, 180 degrees from Cromartie. Similar to, but not nearly so engaging as, the Disney TV-movie hit High School Musical, this one is an earnest, virtually all-girl story about a quartet who hope to win their year-end talent competition with a rendition of the Blue Hearts? 80s hit song that is this movie?s title. The proceedings, under Nobuhiro Yamashita?s sluggish direction, are predictable and hardly worth noting - except for that song, simple and simply irresistible, which neither meditation nor surgery has been able to remove from my head...
...seemed to have the makings of a classic political showdown, except that conservatives now say they were not actually "opposing an effective vaccine." "This is an awesome vaccine," Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health at Focus on the Family, told me when asked her about her group's position. "It could prevent millions of deaths around the world. We support this vaccine. We see it as an extremely important medical breakthrough. To read those headlines saying we're against this is really disconcerting." What they are against, she explained, is making vaccination mandatory rather than leaving it up to parents...
...journalist who has spent the better part of 28 years in the corridors and chambers of the nation’s highest court, Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Ames Courtroom must have been a more comfortable setting than the flooded Holmes field. Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, a Pulitzer Prize winner, addressed the grads-to-be at the Law School’s Class Day, drawing from her experiences as a reporter covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times. “I could tell you that rule of law is hanging...
...build their own particular relationship,” McClusky says.The University filed official notification of its intentions to build in April, after which its plans for the science and art buildings were reviewed at a public hearing.“The process is ticking,” says Linda Kowalcky, deputy director at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. “Really, in terms of the master plan, the ball is in Harvard’s court. Any delay will come from them. But my understanding is that the internal process is moving along...
...Linda J. Bilmes ’80 knows the value of a dollar. A lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Bilmes spends much of her time helping small towns balance their budgets, and she knows how cuts in federal financing can reverberate at a local level. Even the smallest amounts can make an important difference, she says. In Somerville, Mass., for instance, just an extra seven dollars allows another child to participate in an after-school basketball program.Doing this kind of local finance work, Bilmes says, “You see the connections between...