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...Maddox also focused on curriculum reform, arguing that excellence in English, math and science is paramount. While teacher and parent Alice L. Turkel emphasized faculty development, incumbent David P. Maher argued that by initiating the recruiting process for teachers earlier, Cambridge schools can attract a much larger applicant pool...
NEIL YOUNG will never have trouble finding accessories for his Lionel O-gauge freight set again. The toy-train enthusiast (and sometime rock star) is part of a consortium headed by former Paramount chairman Martin S. Davis that just bought the Lionel Trains company. Young, who has two sons with cerebral palsy, has been working with former owner Richard Kughn on developing remote controls that make it easier for handicapped people to use model trains. The new company will continue this work...
Apparently, Whitman believes that the second parent's role is of such paramount importance that we may as well give up on the family if there's only one parent around. Given his statement that children from single-parent households are more likely to end up single parents themselves, I'm surprised he didn't bother to extend this line of thinking to the no-parent household...
SUIT SETTLED. By ART BUCHWALD, 69, and Paramount Pictures; for $825,000; after a protracted court battle; in Los Angeles. Satirist Buchwald and producer Alain Bernheim initially won their suit, which charged that the studio's Coming to America was based on a Buchwald scenario, after a 1992 trial made famous by Paramount's claim that the Eddie Murphy hit lost money...
...hire capped the busiest period in Hollywood's game of musical moguls since 1984, when Barry Diller moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg from Paramount to Disney, and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. to Disney. Those shifts cued the creation of Fox as a fourth TV network and Disney's growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman...