In late October, David S. Wolk, who took over the Vermont Department of Education in February, delivered the keynote address at a school convention held every two years here in Rutland, the state's second-largest city.
But both of those hearings — now set for Jan . 15and Jan . 23— would take place after the high school convention, which means the Texas association cannot wait to see what may happen in Washington before making its decision on the Clemens invitation.
She joined Deutsche Bank in January 1997, and a year later, stifled by old-school conventions at Deutsche, jumped to WestLB, along with many of her subordinates.
And, most promisingly, a small movie coming out of nowhere managed to make the old-school conventions of musical theater bloom naturally in a strictly realistic, indeed even grungy environment.
The dinner party itself is fairly undramatic — the filmmakers are too smart to fall into the playwright-school convention of airing everybody's dirty laundry at the table — but its moments of tension and indirection ripple outward.
The center, she said, has helped to promote Tunisian culture and American-Tunisian relations through art shows, school presentations, conventions and language classes, among other activities.
Start by throwing those old school naming conventions out the window.
"Who did you find in Indiana?" I told him about Paul, who had kissed me good-bye on the rooftop of the San Francisco Hilton after a high school science convention.
But when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled a plan last year to overhaul the area with a hotel, school and convention center, homes, offices, parks and retail stores, two distinct groups rose up in opposition.
Four-year-olds say that it is not O.K. to wear pajamas to school (a convention) and also not O.K. to hit a little girl for no reason (a moral principle).
