Word: nate
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When my 47-year-old husband Fred lay dying in a hospital from a heart attack, I sobbed to my brother, "He can't die. Who will give Nate his shots?" Nate was our autistic son, then 5, and the injections were one of the myriad can't-miss cures we had tried in order to help...
...shrewd killer in Ripley's Game, But it was perhaps the least known film of all, the coming-of-age comedy Somebodies, that sent this crowd - a mix of local residents, visiting Ebert fans and industry VIPs - into hysterics. A low-budget digital comedy produced by festival director Nate Kohn and filmed in Georgia, where Kohn teaches film, the film was written by one his students. Three months after it had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Ebert introduced Somebodies to his Overlooked audience as an affectionate film that liberates its characters from the stereotypes of most mainstream stories...
...MCAS in Cambridge’s schools. “When you use a test with an absolute cut-off score, as is the case with the MCAS, those errors that are built into the process can result in erroneous, damaging decisions,” he said. Nate MacKinnon, a staffer in the Massachusetts Department of Education Commissioner’s Office, said that scoring errors on the MCAS are not a concern because of the department’s long grading timeline. The tests are administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle...
...Galley Girl: To what degree is Nate, your protagonist, patterned after...
...Joshua Spanogle: There's a good amount of me in Nate. He's pretty brash, more brash than...