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...city’s composition is changing. We’re now at one-third non-white.” Some councillors were concerned to learn that 40 percent of the children under 18 in Cambridge speak a language other than English at home. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human resources, said that while Cambridge is becoming more diverse, with growing black and Asian populations, the city has few “linguistically-isolated” households. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Michelle...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Rising Costs Concern Council | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...methods, which might contribute to LIHEAP clients running out of fuel. “Typically, a landlord doesn’t have much incentive to make a property more energy efficient, because they don’t pay utilities,” said Councillor Henrietta J. Davis. But Ellen Semenoff, the assistant city manager for human services, said that the city conducts outreach efforts with landlords, renters, and homeowners to educate them about energy efficiency. Semenoff also assuaged concerns raised by Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 that the rising cost of fuel...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council To Help Heat Cambridge | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the Ballet | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Dancer Fokine telegraphed the Police in Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the Ballet | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Died. Nikolai Semenoff, 50, Russian ballet dancer; by jumping into Niagara Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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