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...mind. “I can say it’s highly likely that they’ll be considered,” she said. “And I think the pleas across the board for more information would be the easiest to satisfy.” Marc C. McGovern, another member of the school committee, said that the school district has tried its best to publish available information online, but that parents should notify them if they need more specific information. School committee member Luc D. Schuster, who served as the main moderator, reassured parents that the placement...
...Marc Martos-Vila, a professor of finance at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, says it might also be about the state of financial markets. Mergers and buyouts, he notes, often come in waves. "The first merger tells the market something, and then other companies, to be competitive, try to make a move," he says. First Lehman, then Merrill, then ... But does this mean the stand-alone investment bank is no longer viable? "In the short term, it doesn't seem like it is," Martos-Vila says. "But when confidence is restored in the market and they move to another...
Many council and community members said they viewed the transition as an opportunity for Cambridge schools to innovate and improve. Marc McGovern, another School Committee member, said Cambridge had the resources, both financial and in the form of community support, to attract someone both experienced and creative...
...Hirst's biggest collectors and promoters. It was Saatchi who commissioned that pickled shark, which he sold 13 years later to American hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen for a reported $12 million. It was Saatchi who bundled Hirst together with other British artists he collected, like Sarah Lucas and Marc Quinn, to create the media phenomenon called Young British Artists. What they had in common other than age was work that was abrasive, unconventional and a little unappetizing - Lucas' first solo exhibition was called "Penis Nailed to a Board"; Quinn produced a self-portrait bust made from his own frozen...
...ground, the picture is much less clear; for all their precision, American bombs sometimes take out the wrong targets. As U.S. air strikes doubled from 2006 to 2007, the number of accidental civilian deaths soared, from 116 to 321, according to Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon targeting chief who tabulates civilian casualties for Human Rights Watch (HRW), an independent research group. By his count, the death toll among civilians so far this year is approaching...