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...insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins, "you might stink...
...Cambridge Public School Committee could not reach a decision about implementing a Montessori program at the Tobin School at a meeting last night, questioning the results of a survey suggesting that Cambridge parents would enroll their children in such a program. The survey, conducted by RKM Research and Communications, consisted of phone interviews with 404 Cambridge parents whose children are already in kindergarten at a Cambridge public school or are applying for enrollment. According to the study, 59 percent of parents would enroll their children in a Montessori program if the district implemented one. The proposal to create a Montessori...
...anthem and bird calls played beneath and between his stanzas, as Ferlinghetti raised and lowered the volume by hand for emphasis. “What’s really amazing is that his work [from the 1950s] is still dynamic, resonant, and conscious today,” said Daniel Tobin, a member of the Poetry Club and chair of the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. The pieces Ferlinghetti selected addressed themes ranging from T.S. Eliot’s romanticism to his own upbringing in Brooklyn to what he called “the increasingly cataclysmic world...
...proposal that targets low enrollment in two Cambridge public schools complicated discussions over the school budget at a meeting last night between school officials and parents. The plan calls for a hybrid middle school, which would move middle school students from the Tobin School to the Peabody School. The Tobin School suffers from low Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores, whereas the Peabody School suffers from declining enrollment, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. Under this plan, the Tobin School would continue only as a K-5 elementary school. Fowler-Finn said that allocating part...
Gentility and blood sport are old friends, but the mix of the wealthy and the rustic at Armstrong Ranch that weekend was exceptional. Tobin's grandfather started the ranch on family land in 1882, after he won a $4,000 bounty for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. The Vice President was hunting with not only his friend Whittington, who has advised Texas Governors and plays a monthly card game with the likes of a retired state supreme court justice, but also Pamela Pitzer Willeford, the ambassador to Switzerland. Tobin died in October, so his wife Anne Legendre Armstrong, a former...