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...business, sophomore school committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc D. Schuster made a motion to discuss at later date the possibility of integrating an International Baccalaureate (IB) program into the Cambridge school system. If the district incorporated the program, which is known for its rigor, into the high school curriculum, “there would be a hundred people who would come back to us from private schools,” Nolan said after the meeting. Fantini was the lone member to oppose discussion of incorporating the program, saying that doing so would...
...visual style, the movie has a formal rigor familiar to the serious European cinema: just about every scene, no matter how long, is shot without cutting. (The nearly two-hour film has fewer than 70 shots.) That's often an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing two characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament. Bebe's examination of Gabi, and his insertion of the syringe, is accomplished in one harrowing shot. There's a bustling scene, at the birthday party of Otilia's boyfriend's mother, that becomes a kind...
...Johnson against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed a detailed manifesto but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase, "Less bossiness, more incentives," explaining "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness...
That kind of rigor makes the new findings particularly important. The study not only found a link between abortion or miscarriage and low birth weight, but it also found that the risk appears to increase with every subsequent miscarriage or abortion. The accruing risk, says co-author Tilahun Adera at Virginia Commonwealth University, suggests that termination of pregnancy is a true cause of low birth weight and preterm birth rather than a variable associated with such conditions. "It's not just an association," he says. "The risk of premature birth increases with the increasing number of abortions...
...wanted to fill in some of the areas about why I had wanted to come to Harvard and why I thought I could handle the rigor of it now, when I couldn’t before,” she said, referring to her withdrawal from Phillips Exeter...