NEWS
January 24, 2007
By now the pattern is familiar. President Bush comes before Congress all earnest and full of sweet talk about working together. But by morning, his promises often prove empty or disappear. With Mr. Bush's presidency at a political and popular ebb - and the opposition party running Congress for the first time during his tenure - a more truly conciliatory approach would seem obligatory for a leader in search of a positive legacy. Yet the president - despite some gracious words for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her late father, Baltimore Mayor and Rep. Thomas J. D'Alesandro Jr. - made clear last night he doesn't see it that way. He missed two prime opportunities for shared progress on domestic issues with his showcased initiatives on health care and energy.
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By Phil Greenfield | November 17, 1999
Jane Kenworthy, the energetic, enterprising executive director of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra for the past three seasons, said last night that she is resigning, effective in early January.Kenworthy, 54, said she is leaving to accept a position as executive director of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, an organization that oversees eight young people's instrumental ensembles in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.Kenworthy, who began her career in arts administration by managing the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, expressed delight at the prospect of working again with talented young musicians.
SPORTS
By John Eisenberg | May 25, 1999
You need a whole lot of fingers to point at everyone who has contributed to the Orioles' pitiful start in 1999. The players, the manager, the general manager, the owner -- it takes a village to go 16-27 with an $84 million payroll. Even the prior front office regime deserves blame.But when listing the villagers in order of culpability, don't put rookie general manager Frank Wren near the top.The underachieving players are ahead of him, as are the manager and owner.True, Wren signed setup guy Mike Timlin as a closer, gave Delino DeShields a regrettable three-year contract and botched the Xavier Hernandez signing -- moves that won't earn him any Executive of the Year votes.
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By Lyle Denniston | January 21, 1998
WASHINGTON -- A woman who postponed her college teaching career to raise two children failed to get a hearing yesterday in the Supreme Court on her claim that her marriage and family were used against her by faculty peers who denied her tenure.The case of Cynthia J. Fisher, a biology professor at Vassar College, attracted attention among women's rights groups as a major test of the legal hurdles that women -- especially married women -- must surmount to prove they were the victims of sex discrimination.
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By Dennis O'Brien | May 3, 1997
Morgan State University was within its rights when it fired a state delegate who had taught at the school since 1972, the Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday.Del. Salima S. Marriott, a West Baltimore community activist and former assistant professor at Morgan State, sued the university in 1995, alleging that it had wrongfully rescinded her tenure.Morgan State dismissed her in June.Suit's dismissal affirmedThe court affirmed Baltimore Circuit Judge David B. Mitchell, who dismissed the suit last year.
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By Jean Thompson | May 23, 1997
With a motion to adjourn its last meeting of the academic year, the Baltimore school board ended its turbulent tenure and closed out an era in city school management late last night.Except for the tears and the impromptu tributes, the board's final meeting was business as usual: awards for teachers, calls for increased parent participation, suspensions and personnel matters.In its final action, the board voted to authorize the drafting of contracts for four nonprofit groups to manage four schools.
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By George F. Will | April 20, 1997
WASHINGTON -- A former graduate student at Yale writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that she has purged her shelves of certain professors' books because she can no longer read them ''without literally becoming nauseated.'' What sickens her is that the professors resisted recognition of a graduate-students' union. That is just one form of the strife that is depressing the quality of increasingly expensive college educations.Last year, to protest what they consider ''exploitation,'' Yale graduate students who are teaching assistants conducted a ''grade strike,'' refusing to turn in grades for the undergraduates they had taught.
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By George F. Will | April 20, 1997
WASHINGTON -- A former graduate student at Yale writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that she has purged her shelves of certain professors' books because she can no longer read them "without literally becoming nauseated." What sickens her is that the professors resisted recognition of a graduate-students' union. That is just one form of the strife that is depressing the quality of increasingly expensive college educations.Last year, to protest what they consider "exploitation," Yale graduate students who are teaching assistants conducted a "grade strike," refusing to turn in grades for the undergraduates they had taught.
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By Joe Nawrozki | December 6, 1996
Citing allegations of secret meetings and incompetence, faculty leaders of Baltimore County's community college system the largest in Maryland -- are demanding that the system's board of trustees resign amid a rancorous reorganization.The call from professors at Essex, Catonsville and Dundalk comes after the 10-member board proposed eliminating tenure for new faculty members and other related policies. The professors say the moves undermine academic freedom and quality education for the system's nearly 67,000 full- and part-time students.
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By Dennis O'Brien | November 5, 1996
A state appeals court reversed yesterday an $822,000 judgment awarded by a Baltimore Circuit Court jury to two professors who sued after they were fired by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1994.The Court of Special Appeals ruled that Drs. Samuel B. Ritter and A. Rebecca Snider were never offered tenure when they were recruited in 1993 and were owed no explanations when they were fired.Dr. Frank Oski, the hospital's director of pediatrics, clearly was in no position to offer tenure when he recruited Ritter from Cornell and Snider from Duke University, the court ruled.