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Following the 150 minute session filled with talk about report card reform, a few minutes spent on the achievement report, and no mention of the superintendent’s contract, the committee adjourned to executive session. There it discussed the contracting of an attorney to negotiate the Fowler-Finn contract. The name of the attorney was not disclosed beforehand, and the committee—over Walser’s objection—did not cap his fees...
Slavitt harps on the fact that his opponent went to Suffolk University instead of an Ivy League school. He neglects, of course, to mention that one of the Commonwealth’s most talented congressmen, Marty Meehan, also attended Suffolk. A candidate who stakes his intelligence on his bachelor’s degree might want to know this...
...India could be complete without a look at such cities as Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Jaipur. After all, northern India encompasses the wonders of the Taj Mahal, a growing software industry and the country's first shopping malls for the average consumer. Jayanti Jha Chandigarh, India You did not mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken in common by the upcoming generation is English. China is just now catching on to the necessity of learning English. Just wait until China starts teaching English full bore...
...secured Beijing's vote by toning down their preferred resolution, which would have invoked Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter authorizing the Security Council to respond to "threats to the peace" and "acts of aggression" with anything from economic sanctions to military force. Instead, China permitted the resolution to mention rather less ominously the Council's "special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security...
...Hamas, Hizballah and Israel are directly involved; Iran and Syria by proxy; Lebanon against its will. The U.N. is dispatching its mediators; the European Union is contemplating doing the same. But the U.S., despite colossal strategic stakes, threats to its own security, potential repercussions in Iraq, not to mention staggering loss of life, remains on the sidelines. The world's sole superpower is also its only no-show...