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...were watching the cablecast of the School Committee meeting witnessed a shameful display of partisan politics. Members Duehay, Simmons, Segat and Turkel, the supposed enlightened members of the committee, had privately decided to elect a vice chair. Despite the objections of David Maher and Joseph Grassi that a motion for such an election was out of order because it did not appear on the Feb. 20 meeting agenda and therefore failed to provide notice to interested persons, Acting Chair Duehay allowed a motion by Alice Turkel, seconded by Susana Segat to elect Denice Simmons as vice chair of the committee...
...Rodley agreed that the election of a vice chair should be brought before the committee as new business and be discussed at its next regularly-scheduled meeting. Whereupon Duehay, in a display of power politics, overruled the opinion of the parliamentarian and proceeded to take a vote on the motion...
...school committee will recall that the newly-elected members of the committee, Turkel and Segat, stressed the importance of school committee members working as a team in order to provide the best possible education for the schoolchildren of Cambridge. It is therefore unfortunate that the first major motion by these newly-elected members served to foster divisiveness and division rather than the collegiality and cooperation that they are mouthing in their public statements to Cambridge parents and taxpayers...
...show used to have three other full-time writers, but they were phased out recently during the making of the "Beavis and Butthead" motion picture, due to be released in December, Brown says...
...Weisberg-Barry group--mindless motion can land you on a Greyhound to Newark--and I ended up getting the last seat on a prop plane to Dulles Airport. Bay Buchanan was on the flight, a picture of peacefulness with eyes closed on lift-off, knowing that below her Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander were grounded. Pat, who took off the night before, was already in South Carolina fulminating about Beltway betrayals...