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...address the declining enrollment, was held in a roundtable format, meaning that committee members could speak freely but the public could not ask questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last regular School Committee meeting by member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a sharp critic of the school district’s leadership.The roundtable began with a presentation by Clifford Cook, a Cambridge city planner, who showed long-term data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Have All the Students Gone? | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

...critical housing market clearly is weakening. With a new, untested team at the Federal Reserve, Paulson's credentials are more important than ever. He's also well-known in China, which holds massive stores of U.S. housing debt and could get spooked if the housing market takes a sharp turn down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Bush's Treasury Chief Swing the Budget Ax? | 5/30/2006 | See Source »

...expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, on the death of British mountaineer David Sharp, who froze just below Everest's summit last week as several other climbers passed by without trying to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...fell just short of winning six years ago but doesn't want to look hungry for it. Democratic insiders weigh Gore's demurrals against his increasingly robust activism, not only on the environment but also in his full-throated criticism of the Iraq war. His opposition stands in sharp contrast to the support Clinton and many other leading Democratic contenders gave to the invasion of Iraq. And it is far more in tune with the sentiments of the party--and, more and more, the country at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights, Camera, Al Gore! | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...winged white horse Buraq, was guided through the seven heavens by the angel Gabriel to a certain place, where he prayed with Jesus, Moses, and Abraham before returning to Earth, to become the last of the prophets, the ultimate one. His adventures that day are proved by the hoofprint, sharp and clear, that Buraq left on the Rock beneath the sacred Dome in the center of Al-Quds, called Jerusalem by the infidels and Zionists, whose torments in the furnaces of Jahannan are well described in the seventh and eleventh and fiftieth of the suras of the Book of Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

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