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Although parents, school faculty, and community members were present at the meeting, only school committee members were allowed to pose questions. Unlike at Monday night’s town hall forum—during which the finalists introduced themselves directly to city residents—yesterday’s discussion covered subject areas that were selected by the school committee, rather than the public...
Iqbal Hussein feels like a marked man. An itinerant laborer from rural Khulna district in Bangladesh, he now scraps for odd jobs in a market town 19 miles (30 km) south of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Last year, he agreed to pay a recruitment agency $2,400 to win a position on the production line of an auto parts manufacturer. But in the wake of the financial crisis, that job is gone, and Hussein, like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers around the world, is stranded far from home, saddled with debts that will take years to repay...
...sounding like an auto executive putting the best spin on a dressing-down by the Obama Administration, "but it is far too early to say that there is any struggle to get there." Translation: the version of Brüno shown to the MPAA was like an out-of-town tryout for a Broadway show or a novel's first draft - except that the script doctors, or editors, are outside agents with the power to tell Baron Cohen what he can leave in and what...
Parents, teachers, and administrators crowded into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School cafeteria to meet the three final candidates for Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent in a town hall meeting last night.The finalists, Mary C. Nash, Carolyn L. Turk, and Jeffrey M. Young, answered questions submitted by audience members, which covered topics including special education, standardized testing, and diversity.“We do these sessions across the country and this is by far the largest group that I have seen for a school district this size,” said Al Johnson, a consultant from the firm hired...
...Although Obama can't control all the people who will be riding his public profile, his team has planned a series of events at which the President can deliver his message directly to the world public. In Strasbourg on Friday, he will host a town hall, "taking some questions from students from throughout Europe and discussing the transatlantic alliance," according to an aide. In Turkey, Obama will host a "new media" roundtable discussion with young people from Europe and Southeast Asia. The hope of the Administration is that despite the various distractions, Obama will be able to maintain message control...