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Candidate statement: Unlike the other candidates, I offer depth and breadth of 20 years' experience as a professional educator in public and private institutions, have experience with long-range strategic planning to achieve academic goals, and am familiar with educational theory and practice...
...parent of two children in the public schools, Walser wrote the annual Parent's Guide to Cambridge Schools (1997, 1998, 1999). She hopes to reform middle school programs, reallocate funds toward classrooms and students and away from mid-level administration, and do a better job of evaluating and supporting teachers...
...many of today's law school graduates, he said, enter corporate law instead of public interest work, resulting in an unnatural concentration of power in the hands of large corporations...
Last Wednesday's move was therefore an answer to mounting public pressure: after California banned smoking in all public areas in 1997, including bars and taverns, and with similar legislation in Massachusetts pending, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to jump on the bandwagon of public denunciation--even if such denunciation means appearing hypocritical. If confronted, any executive from a tobacco company could simply claim to have the facts in his favor: "we have admitted that smoking causes cancer, what else do you expect us to do?" And surprisingly, few would realistically respond, "stop producing cigarettes." Is that because...
Nader, a 1958 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate, spoke before a packed room of nearly 500 people at the HLS Forum. Held in the Ames Courtroom, the Forum annually invites distinguished individuals to speak before members of the Harvard community and the general public...