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Harry Mattison is an Allston resident and member of Mayor Menino’s Harvard Allston Task Force. To learn more, visit www.HarvardInAllston.net...
...though Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse has not directly commented on the book, she released a book of her own earlier this month titled “Jews in Power.” In it, Wisse makes a point of taking to task those who, like Walt and Mearsheimer, accuse the Bush administration of caving in to pressure from Jewish organizations when pushing to invade Iraq...
Graduate School of Education (GSE) Lecturer S. Paul Reville was appointed chairman of the State Board of Education (BOE) last month by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, after heading up the governor’s task force on PreK-12 public education. “With Paul at the helm of the Board of Education, the Commonwealth gains a leader with a broad perspective on local, national and international education issues and solutions,” Patrick said in a press release announcing the appointment on August 22. Reville has held many leadership positions in the education...
...direction. He's full of surprises, too - a discreetly sexy moment with a prostitute is a good example, as is a curiously menacing encounter with railroaders blasting their way through a mountainside. With his screenwriters (Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, updating Halstad Welles's original) he has managed the task of expanding what amounted to a kind of chamber piece without improbably inflating it. He never loses his crispness or his narrative efficiency...
...fellowship at the Aspen Institute, of which I am president. For the past three summers, fund members have convened a meeting in Aspen of educational entrepreneurs, and at the July 2006 gathering, they decided to make New Orleans a focus of their involvement. Some were worried initially that the task would be too daunting. I argued that if they were not willing to take on such a challenge, they should find an easier line of work, such as managing a hedge fund...