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...respond to repeated requests for comment. The proposed bill falls in a pattern of legislation aimed at reducing the cost of college for students. Last year, the House passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which provided students with an additional $20 billion in federal college aid over the next five years, according to Racusen. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...before, and more compellingly (not to mention more concisely). Although the company attempted an impressive integration of multiple media, the performance utterly lacked dramatic cohesion.As the audience filed in, a white-clad throng convulsed rhythmically to the energetic music of local band “The Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band,” which would prove to be the highlight of the evening. The dancers this band accompanied composed the play’s ensemble of twenty; they ranged in age between their teens and seventies and were in varying states of hygiene. While seven...
...carrying firearms, followed by a search team comprised of police and community members who go and request to search the children’s rooms. Searches are completely voluntary, and if an illegally possessed gun is found, no arrest will be made. While this initiative is an aid to parents worried about their teenagers, one aspect of Massachusetts state law may make this program more detrimental to the families than the its designers intended...
...Richard Land, for one, understands this, which may be one reason he is careful not to explicitly endorse candidates, even though you don't exactly need a hearing aid to know whom he likes. Of the infamous characterization of evangelical voters as "poor, uneducated and easily led," he says, "Evangelicals are actually slightly wealthier than the general public, better educated. And they are about as easy to lead as a herd of tomcats...
...highbrow literature, and Nonami's streamlined prose is arguably not up to her prizewinning best. But this pulpy family psychodrama is hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit...