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...Stars If you don’t know who Audra McDonald is, but appreciate vocal music, now’s the time to find out. The angelic lyric soprano has just released her fourth and most accessible solo album, “Build a Bridge,” filling it with covers of songs by mainstream pop songwriters like Bacharach, Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Randy Newman, and John Mayer...
...England Association of Schools and Colleges and its scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) standardized tests lagged behind similar schools. Knight came to the school in 2002 after the then-acting principal, Paula M. Evans, resigned amidst a controversial restructuring plan. Local elementary school principal Len Solo served as interim chief immediately following Evans’s resignation. In a letter written shortly after her resignation, Knight urged the district to pick her replacement from inside the CRLS ranks.“A leader from within the existing CRLS leadership team, who has been immersed deeply...
...Berkeley and John Mather of NASA have long feuded over discoveries they made while both were at NASA trying to prove the Big Bang theory. Mather was infuriated when Smoot, in 1992, announced some results of their collaborative research in what Mather alleged was a grab for solo glory. But after they won the prize last week, the pair seemed buddy-buddy again. Nothing brings people together like shiny gold medals and a check for $1.4 million...
...This is a disappointment on two counts. For one thing, I?m not at all certain that Williams is a performer whose highest gifts need to be doled out in small doses. Back when he was doing stand-up in solo TV appearances I never found him tiresome. Those appearances often had the quality of a high wire act; they fascinated us precisely because of his tireless talent to entertain, to keep going beyond the point at which most comedians wear out their welcome. Or simply fall to earth. In those days you felt a need to answer his bravery...
...speak, with the cross-cutting of several scenes of vigorous sexual activity. One heterosexual couple rushes through a dozen permutations in a wham-bam-Kama-Sutra fashion. A young man photographs his genitals in his bathtub. Another fellow performs acrobatic onanistic sex; he could start his own Cirque de Solo. A dominatrix whups her client, while he tries to pursue the kind of conversational line other people might have on a first date. (He: "Are you a top or a bottom in real life?" She: "This is real life." He: "Let me put it another way: Do you think...