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...lunches to school starting times to standardized tests. London-Thompson said that student involvement should be a significant part of the superintendent decision. She said it is important that the selection committee have “heard the issues on their minds” when Payzant’s successor is announced later this spring. Director of Marketing and New Initiatives at Citizen Schools Jason A. Cascarino called this particular “apprenticeship” a success, since it showed students “they can be producers as well as consumers.” One of the students...
...become overwhelmed by the enormity of their actions, and their guilt alienates them from each other and induces resentment of their mission.Spielberg’s expert use of espionage-thriller genre conventions prevents the film from becoming ideologically burdensome. The coincidence of casting Daniel Craig, the newly appointed successor to Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, as the team’s impetuous driver links “Munich” to a rich tradition of spy cinema (and the team’s Rube Goldberg-esque bombs are more than a little reminiscent of Q’s gadgets...
...Cardinal, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, also serves as the Vicar of Rome, charged with standing in for the Pope in many of his duties as official Bishop of Rome. In that role, Ruini forged close relationships with Pope John Paul II and with his successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, another top official in the Roman Curia. Vatican insiders say Ruini's support for Ratzinger in the conclave was crucial to his election. The Pope has since praised Ruini repeatedly for his aggressive - and effective - defense of Roman Catholic values in Italy's public sphere. A lanky figure...
...Democratic presidential nomination. Warner just last week spared the life of death-row inmate Robin Lovitt, citing the destruction of DNA evidence that might have cleared his name. But with no looming execution date for the Norfolk Three, their request could fall to Warner's successor, Tim Kaine...
...turned down numerous offers from Division I-A schools to play as a safety so that he could come to Cambridge and lead the Crimson offense. Irvin had left behind a starting job and a scholarship at Tulane with the idea that he would be Fitzpatrick’s successor...