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Faced with the prospect of an aimless academic year, of persistently failing schools and of thousands of students being denied the sound, basic education guaranteed to them by the state constitution, the Buffalo School Board took a deep breath Monday and did absolutely nothing.
The board met to consider terminating the contract of Superintendent James A. Williams, who has been ineffective as a leader and disingenuous with the School Board and, thus, with taxpayers and parents, as well. But after meeting in closed session, President Ralph R. Hernandez announced that the board had decided not to act. Thus, it leaves in place a lame-duck superintendent who has announced that he will resign in 2012, condemning thousands of students to another year in the academic wilderness.
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The Williams Act of 1968 amended the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C.A. § 78a et seq.) to require mandatory disclosure...
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OXFORD - It only took one slight bobble.
John Donahue got up onto the curbing just for an instant coming through turn 4 on lap 119, and Eric Williams drove on by,
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... 1975: COVERAGE OF EMPLOYERS UNDER THE WILLIAMS-STEIGER OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970...
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ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has warned National Public Radio (NPR) that a remark made by NPR's CEO in the firing of senior correspondent Juan Williams may violate the letter or spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO)
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Comparing movies and plays is apples and oranges; and if you are comparing Rene Augesen's performance in Gat on a Hot Tin Roof with that of Elizabeth Taylor, you may come up with a lemon. Augesen's Maggie the Cat is hot all right, but not for her brooding, alcoholic husband's body - she's hot for the 80 acres of prime Mississippi Delta that Big Daddy (Jack Willis) has amassed by hook and by crook. But inheriting family land means having an heir - older brother Gooper (Rod Gnapp) and his smug wife Mae (Anne Darragh) have already produced five children, and Mae is hugely pregnant again. Maggie calls them "little no-neck monsters," and rages, "How can you wring their necks if they've got no necks to wring!
In a first act that is virtually a monologue, Augesen captures a rapacious Maggi...
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BRANSON, Mo. For many Americans, particularly those on the older OK, squarer side of the generation gap, Andy Williams was part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and 70s, with easy-listening hits like Moon River, the Love Story theme and The Most Wonderful Time of the Year from his beloved Christmas TV specials. The singer known for his wholesome, middle-America appeal was the antithesis of the counterculture that produced rock n roll. The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you werent there, Williams once recalled. Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred not by any drugs I took but by the relentless pace of the schedule I set myself. The entertainer, who died Tuesday night at his Branson home following a yearlong battle with bladder cancer, had a p...
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... 1975: COVERAGE OF EMPLOYERS UNDER THE WILLIAMS-STEIGER OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970...
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Blanche du Bois may have depended on the kindness of strangers, but for the Shakespeare Theatre's artistic director Michael Kahn, it was the kindness of scholars that landed him first dibs on 15 of Tennessee Williams' unpublished one-act plays.
Finding these plays is a testament to listening to your voice messages," says Mr. Kahn during a break in rehearsals for "Five by Tenn" last week. "If I had gotten an e-mail it might have been a different story - I can never get caught up.
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... 1975: COVERAGE OF EMPLOYERS UNDER THE WILLIAMS-STEIGER OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970...