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...Frog opens wide, in the august company of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and the pre-acclaimed indie drama A Single Man. If there's not a new No. 1 title then - if The Blind Side and New Moon don't finally make way for the new kids at the box office - it will be time for Hollywood to unsheathe its harakiri swords...
...break out the boots and the crimson-and-white scarves, head over to Burdick's for some exquisite hot chocolate, and make it out to the Yard to push around your loved one like the girl who dies from cancer in Love Story...
Clarification: Our first caption on this post's photo didn't make it clear that this is a picture from two years ago. Not enough of the snow has stuck to make snowmen just yet...but it's getting there...
...being routed through the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. In the past, SIG has provided federal dollars (up to about $500 million) to failing schools in order to implement changes. Of the five SIG restructuring options available to such underperforming schools, the most commonly chosen simply requires schools to make some change, any change - such as a new curriculum or extra training for teachers. Weak sauce, in other words. With this new $3.5 billion, districts (which will compete for cash obtained by states through the application of a formula) will have to show that they are ready for and capable...
...finds it hard to study her favorite subject, math. "Anything can happen at any time," she says, her big eyes widening further. "This disturbs my studies very much." "I am upset about all this terrorism," says Hamza Baig with intensity. The teenager from the Overseas boys college wants to make sure his words are clear: "We feel very scared when going to school, thinking today may be our last." Like many students, Baig stayed home for weeks at a time after the attack on the International Islamic University...