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...part now is to figure out what to do with the money," said Alice L. Turkel, a school committee member. "We just want to thank the mayor, the city council, the city manager and the taxpayers because they're the ones supporting education...
Referring to last year's $1.2 million deficit--which cost 18 elementary school teachers their jobs--Turkel said that by giving the committee a deficit figure early in the game, "we won't have to go through that agony again...
...Having done it once doesn't prove you can do it again," Turkel said. "You cut too deep, and you get to the bone...
...millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing out of human control. "God created a set of conditions from which life would emerge. Like...
Perhaps those who were present at this year's swearing-in-ceremony of the members of the school committee will recall that the newly-elected members of the committee, Turkel and Segat, stressed the importance of school committee members working as a team in order to provide the best possible education for the schoolchildren of Cambridge. It is therefore unfortunate that the first major motion by these newly-elected members served to foster divisiveness and division rather than the collegiality and cooperation that they are mouthing in their public statements to Cambridge parents and taxpayers...