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Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons released a statement yesterday saying that “the next immediate focus is developing updated goals for our district, which will inform our search for a new superintendent.” She noted that upcoming “town meetings on educational topics?? can serve as a forum to discuss important issues for the district, including selection criteria for the next superintendent...
...survey asked whether a number of topics??such as cultivating personal and academic integrity—should have a major focus in college, as well as whether the participants feel that these subjects are currently emphasized enough in today’s curricula...
...Thompson: “What are you going to do—what can you offer to recover the lost ground among Hispanics?” The candidates duly recited their talking points, and assured the moderators that they didn’t hate Hispanics. They broached some substantive topics??the Cuba embargo, Hugo Chavez’s socialist regime in Venezuela—but once again, why couldn’t they discuss these issues in a debate on foreign policy? Only Hispanics care about Chavez? Only blacks care about crime...
...more pronounced than ever. Mega-hit “Stacy’s Mom” dealt with teenage lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses all its topics??from crushing on DMV workers to being the target of hitmen—with perceptive, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, wit. The first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With...
...describe the difficult process of learning to write, and a book like “Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide” is full of them. Purporting to teach aspiring writers useful things like “Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics?? and “Building a Career in Magazines and Books,” “Telling True Stories” is a collection of essays derived from the five annual Neiman Conferences on Narrative Journalism held from 2001 to 2006. Hosted by Harvard’s Neiman Foundation...