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Ninth-grader Nathaniel Vogel last year initiated the motion to change the school’s name after reading the writing on Louis Agassiz by Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, who died Monday of cancer. Vogel testified that the elementary school’s diverse student body did not reflect the thinking of the 19th century scientist...
Though many institutions in Cambridge and Harvard also bear the Agassiz name, neither Mayor Sullivan nor Counter had heard of any motion to further expunge Agassiz’s name...
...final vista of an orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
When I was done, however, my poor thumbs needed a massage. This is the perennial problem with keyboards; doing any motion over and over puts you at risk for repetitive-stress injuries, and pecking at thumb keyboards is no exception. Graffiti, for all its faults, has never given me so much as writer's cramp...
Since no Faculty member asked for a motion overturning the decision to be considered at next week’s meeting prior to noon on Monday, a four-fifths would be required to reverse the prior vote...