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...Cambridge City Council meeting. “The city has every right to get a reasonable rent for that property,” Councillor Sam Seidel said. “But the newspaper business is changing.” The City Manager’s office will now begin soliciting bids from new lessees, but according to Healy, Hudson News will not be among them. In the meantime, the Council authorized Healy to modify the property’s current rent in order to avoid leaving the building empty during the search for a new permanent lessee. Few Cambridge residents...
...While there has been no organized effort to attract more female students into computer science at Harvard, Malan said he openly acknowledged the gender imbalance in his course on the first day of the semester, and encouraged female students to enroll anyway. “I hope the problem begins to chip away at itself,” he said. “As numbers begin to equalize, the perspective will change...
Just 245 days after the end of its disappointing 2007-08 season, the Harvard men’s basketball team is back and ready to begin again with a clean slate. The Crimson opens its campaign today on the road against New Hampshire.Expectations and enthusiasm are high entering the first game of the year, but even before the games begin, Harvard has taken some blows, as injuries have stricken several of its most experienced players. The senior trifecta of captain and guard Andrew Pusar, forward Evan Harris, and guard Drew Housman has picked up knocks in the past few weeks...
...Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha. A medical social worker, she was on duty in the ER when some of the abandonments unfolded. "Some parents want us to threaten the child - they feel that would set them straight," she says. Some parents cry; others are merely angry. Some children begin to cry when they figure out what's going on, while others are hardened veterans of the foster-care system and "are used to these ups and downs...
...Nebraska legislature's judiciary committee met in a special session on Monday to begin rewriting the law, which has resulted in an epidemic of abandoned children - with some parents driving from Florida, Arizona and Georgia to drop off their problem kids. Most states allow a parent to leave an infant at a fire station or hospital without fear of prosecution, but because Nebraska's law did not define child, 34 kids have been dropped off at Omaha hospitals since September. None were infants. The rest of America was stunned. But, as the special session proceeded, some legislators defended the intent...