Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accompanied by an accordion player dressed as Santa Claus, supporters of the Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a Cambridge activist group, caroled Saturday afternoon in Central Square to raise awareness about tenants' rights...
...Southside Park Cohousing, D'Marie now shares three meals a week in a central dining hall with 65 other residents of all ages. Her apartment, like the others, looks out over a common lawn, gardens and playground. Here, there's always someone to talk to. When she needs help moving a couch or changing the battery in a smoke detector, neighbors are ready to assist. In return, she hems their clothes or makes applesauce for them from the community orchard. "I'm very comfortable here," she says...
...they got their dream, the 25-unit Southside Park Cohousing. Front porches on the neo-Victorians look out on the surrounding community. Inside, kitchen windows and plate-glass back doors face one another over the common green space, as if two dozen families had one huge backyard. In the central building, residents share a dining room, playroom, mailboxes, laundry room, TV, exercise equipment and a lounge with a fireplace. They take turns cooking the three common meals served each week. Afterward, they relish the opportunity to share cars, swap furniture and get together without planning...
...minimal set includes a banner that drapes above the audience and includes us in the conflict between the jail-barred motif of the Chinese half of the banner and the American stars and stripes that is at the heart of this play. From the very beginning, color is central to the understanding of the contrasts between China and the consumerist American society with which Bibi identifies herself. Bibi comes onto the stage dressed in rainbow colors; in contrast, the only colors that are allowed in China, according to Karen, are "gray, blue and green." This is part of the goal...
...corridors of power in Washington stands a metaphorical closet jam-packed with Rwandan skeletons. President Clinton admitted as much last year when he apologized to Rwanda for the West's failure to act in 1994 when faced with overwhelming evidence that genocide was under way in the central African country. But a U.N.-commissioned report released Thursday makes the point more sharply: The United Nations chose to ignore reports of the impending bloodbath, and its inaction was due in no small part to the desire of Washington and its allies to turn a blind...