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...parental leave guidelines and requiring that each school have a written policy, Hammonds says. According to Mansbridge, the new policy automatically grants a semester of paid teaching relief to new parents, responding to concerns that childcare policies were not well-publicized or automatically applied, she adds.Each school may tailor these minimum guidelines to satisfy its needs. Mansbridge, who served on the Task Force on Women Faculty last year, said that the Task Force found it difficult to set central policy.“I might have been hoping for more centralized control, but I wasn’t aware...
...same balance. A lot of the coaches are European and from the Communist bloc and have a very different attitude about it.”Cross adds that Brand “really tries to work with” the fencers in terms of other commitments as well and tailor their schedules around them.“He’s very supportive of me missing some non-essential meets for individual competitions,” she says. “He’s very much a part of the team—he’s an authority...
...well into this fascinating movie - about a crafty old tailor and money lender named Geremia (Giacomo Rizzo - before we realize that the old woman is the aged mother Geremia dutifully cares for, the young woman is a Romanian refugee whom a matchmaker tries fruitlessly to fix up with Geremia, and the volleyball girls are his one erotic release in an otherwise mean existence...
...Sorrentino's inspiration is the Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
...hallmark of the Bel-Air is that each room and suite is unique, and nearly 500 fabrics and 100 paint colors were used to give each space a different feel. Even the desk lamps vary from room to room. Lopes also tailor-made several suites for the guests who use them most often. These personal touches include a a hand-painted ceiling design, built-in bookshelves and hardwood flooring. The initial revamp so impressed the Mobil judges that they restored the five-star rating in 2003. Since then, the final touches, such as a semi-enclosed treetop terrace for tastings...