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...Hadfield has previously lambasted the UC’s lobbying effort: “The current approach of asking administrators nicely is not working,” Hadfield said Wednesday. —Alexander D. Blankfein contributed to the reporting for this story. —Rachel Nolan contributed to the reporting for this story...
...including computer upgrades, professional development training for teachers, and special education technology software—totaling over $800,000. While some committee members supported the proposal set forth by the superintendent, others said that the surplus money could be put to better uses. One committee member, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, said she felt that technology items on the list were funded improperly. She initiated a motion to remove the items from the list before the members voted on the proposal in its entirety. “We need to have a strategic plan on how to spend...
...undermine the reality of federal and state mandates that we have to live with,” said School Committee member Luc Schuster. “But how often in our lives are we asked questions with very definite, discrete answers?” School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 said that the district’s focus should be on improving teacher quality and not simply improving test scores. “We don’t want to be a test prep factory,” she said. “The whole dream...
...Harvard men’s tennis team had a pair of doubles tandems reach the quarterfinals of the Wilson/ITA Regional Championship over the weekend in Philadelphia. The Crimson’s top-ranked pair, sophomore Sasha Ermakov and junior Ashwin Kumar, defeated Sam Berrer and Nolan Greenberg of Delaware in the Round of 32 and then beat Georgetown’s Jeff Schnell and Kevin Walsh to make it to the Elite Eight. Their run stopped there, however, as Penn State’s Michael James and Adam Slagter took an 8-5 decision. Harvard’s second-ranked...
...appreciate Michael Caine's work as Cutter, the man who engineers the lads' best illusions and who is, finally, the most sensible and sympathetic figure present, grounding the film in some sort of rationality. Yet for all the film's murky misdirections, it is very enjoyable. That's because Nolan's recreation of the illusionists' backstage world is so marvelously detailed, including as it does revelations of how some of their best tricks are accomplished. It's also because it conveys an excellent sense of the way these figures - the rock stars of their era - commanded their stages...