Word: margarete
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...Senator Ted Kennedy is set to chair the Senate committee that oversees education. Although he has bitterly accused President Bush of underfunding the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, Kennedy has said he still believes in its principle: using standards to lift every student's performance. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings told TIME last week that she and the Senator had made the act's reauthorization a joint priority even before the election. "Kennedy and I talked this summer about the need to get this done--win, lose or draw," she said...
...NAMED. Margaret Chan, 59, assistant director-general for communicable diseases at the World Health Organization; as the WHO's next director-general; in Geneva. A former head of Hong Kong's health department, Chan succeeded Lee Jong Wook, who died of a stroke in May. She was praised for her decisive handling of Hong Kong's H5N1 avian-flu outbreak in 1997. But during the 2003 SARS crisis that killed 299 in the territory, she was criticized for her slow response and her failure to investigate earlier outbreaks of the disease across the border on the Chinese mainland. During...
...Cinematography, the disc's extras include three one-hour radio adaptations, among them one by Orson Welles, and footage of the screen tests for Joan Fontaine, who won the starring role of the second Mrs. de Winter, opposite Laurence Olivier, as well as for also-rans Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young and Olivier's then-wife Vivien Leigh...
...division to a second place finish, while both C and D-divisions saw four sailors each. Sophomore skipper Megan Watson, senior crew Cassandra Niemi, senior skipper Marion Guillaume, and sophomore Kerry-Anne Bradford finished in second in C-division, as sophomore Andrew Flynn, Brants, senior Robby McIntosh, and sophomore Margaret Wang earned D-division a No. 6 nod.Boston College’s final point tally was 84, compared to a Crimson total of 113. Tufts had 139, while CGA and New Hampshire had 149 and 163, respectively.Though he didn’t spend his weekend at a team event, Johnson...
...Margaret C. Jack ’09 is a history and science concentrator in Dunster House. She is director of Students for Deval Patrick and a member at large of the Harvard College Democrats...