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...session after last night’s regular meeting. After the meeting, recently elected Mayor E. Denise Simmons—the swing vote in favor of Fowler-Finn’s contract extension in January—said that “you don’t want to rush something that’s so important.” Walser lauded Fowler-Finn’s successful initiatives, such as “bench-marking” as a way to assess progress in schools. “Instead of just judging the schools from the test scores, this...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Ralph Fiennes won an Oscar for his role as Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English Patient. Fiennes lost that year to Geoffrey Rush...
...think it [the short-handed goal] gave them a boost and it’s something that we feel we can play a lot better.”Quinnipiac’s determination to avenge Friday night’s humiliation translated into an aggressive rush and fore-check that forced the Crimson to play to its opponent’s tempo from the game’s outset.“I told the guys that we were fortunate in the fact that tonight is the last night we could afford to lose a game,” Donato...
...only beneficiaries of this folly are, of course, American farmers, who win both from high market prices and from subsidies dished out by a Congress desperate to look like it has some kind of solution to rising oil prices. But ethanol represents, on a broader level, the tendency to rush into high profile, fix-all “solutions” before we have fully analyzed the interdependency of all the elements involved. Instead of pursuing those modest, non-fanciful solutions that we have reason to believe might work (like forest management to increase carbon uptake and a carbon...
...juniors recovering from the rush of recruiting season, it might seem hard to imagine quitting a coveted consulting job to work in a restaurant kitchen. But Joanne B. Chang ’91 did just that when she left McKinsey to pursue her dream of becoming a bakery chef over a decade ago. Chang, who now owns her own bakery, first entered the culinary world by writing letters to restaurant owners in Boston promising that she would “work hard and do whatever you want.” Chang told her unlikely story to nearly 30 female students...