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...seize control of Detroit's public schools in the fall of 2008 and then look for someone to fix them. After a wide search, she settled on Bobb, who had a reputation for restoring fiscal sanity to city governments - including managing public-school-system budgets. When Bobb arrived last spring, here's what he found: Contracts had been stuffed in office drawers. The district couldn't afford new books. Gas was siphoned between buses. The district had to borrow money to pay its employees. There wasn't even a chief financial officer managing the system's $1.3 billion annual budget...
Burt, whose course offerings for the spring semester include an English seminar on 21st century American poetry, said that his interest in contemporary poetry is two-fold...
...Harvard women’s tennis team sent future opponents an early warning message on Saturday that the team will be a force this spring season. The Crimson swept its cross-town rivals, the Boston University Terriers, in singles and doubles play. The 65th-ranked Harvard women met the No. 61-ranked Terriers at the Murr Center for both squads’ first dual match up of the spring. The Crimson overwhelmed BU, winning the singles matches, 6-0, and the doubles competitions...
...past two years we’ve lost our first spring match up against BU even though I thought we were always a better team,” junior captain Sam Rosekrans said. “This year we’re young but we have a better lineup, so we were able to start off stronger than ever before...
While you might not be too excited by the prospect of leaving behind home-cooking, HUDS is planning to make a few changes that might make this spring's dining hall fare just that much more palatable...