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...this community.”The search has been in progress since December, a month after former Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn’s early departure from the district. The application process closed in late February. From a pool of over 30 applicants, the school committee then selected semi-finalists, who were interviewed in a closed process. The finalists were publicly announced last week.Nash, the first candidate to speak, is currently one of the academic superintendents for Boston Public Schools. She noted that it is essential for central administration and individual schools to work together. “Shared...
...turned ugly as Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek described the Obama stimulus programs as the "way to hell." The comments were made worse by the fact that the Czechs currently hold the position of the presidency of the E.U. Topolanek's opinions were at the very least a semi-official statement from the European alliance, even if other member nations denounce it. (Read a TIME story on the Czech Republic...
...that I've seen John Hamburg's I Love You, Man, which is not an Apatow production (but observes all its rules) and in which Rudd finally gets a starring role. It's that Rudd is a handsome nebbish, a fellow programmed to be agreeable, soft, semi-cuddly, in a movie universe that not only doesn't value those qualities but sees them as failings. The actor has a furtive, slightly abashed niceness, the yearning of a square peg trying to fit into a cool hole. He knows what attitude he's supposed to display, but he hasn't quite...
...this last segment. Boyle does not shy away from portraying every dimension, and every sordid detail, of his characters. Much is made of how often the characters sweat in the novel. They sweat while driving, lost in the steppes of rural Wisconsin and searching for Wright’s semi-mythical Taliesin. They sweat in the taxi driving through the sweltering heat of Tiajuana, in search of their next morphine fix. They sweat as they spend sleepless nights in jail cells, separated from their children. Much like Jonathan Swift—specifically in his satire “The Lady?...
...this River Run thing, right?” The others acted as if they couldn’t hear him, and sat transfixed in front of the computer screen. It was as if they were playing a high-stakes game in which the first to respond to [the semi-outsider lost social clout]. A few minutes later they responded. Not to Carmichaels, but to a vibrating iPhone.“Dude let’s go to Drake’s club. He said we could hang out with the guys,” the British one said, excited...