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...Aggressive protests by critics of Beijing during the Olympic torch run touched off a nationalist storm in China. That sentiment cooled some after the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, when patriotic ardor was directed at helping the millions left homeless. But demonstrations during the Games could reignite it, says Victor Cha, director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. "Protests by foreigners would infuriate the Chinese and only fuel their reactive nationalist view that the West is trying to ruin China's moment...
...financial losses due to the act, the Cambridge Health Alliance—a network that provides medical services for residents of Cambridge, Somerville, and parts of Boston—announced in March that it would slash 300 jobs. DVS Director Robert Stevens met yesterday with representatives of CHA and the City Council Veterans Committee to discuss coordinating health services for local veterans. The DVS benefits program serves low-income veterans and their surviving spouses by paying costs not covered by state medical insurance. These costs include out-of-pocket medical expenses, insurance premiums, and fees associated with Medicare Parts...
...Over the last three years, the most searched for celebrity dancer was Stacy Keibler, with over five times the searches of any other contestant. Searches for the leggy blonde finalist in the show's second season weren't for her samba, waltz or cha-cha; searchers were primarily interested in finding pictures, specifically "hot pictures," of the female wrestler. One thing that can be said for Stacy's searches is that they have sustained after her 2006 appearance on the show, more than doubling the volume of searches she experienced before taking up ballroom dancing and at peak times increasing...
Disagreements about the Cambridge City Council’s relationship with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) brought heated debate to the Council’s weekly meeting last night. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a proposition requesting a “dollar-to-dollar review” of the funding that the Council provides to CHA, citing CHA’s lack of formal accountability to the Council and its recent decision to remove obstetrician-gynecologist services from three of its 12 neighborhood clinics. The Council approved Decker’s measure with an amendment requiring the city manager...
Sure, you can talk about Agosta’s nation-leading goal totals, but then you also have to talk about how she played in the incredibly weak CHA conference as well as about her startling low number of assists (25), which indicates one of two things:—either she hogged the puck or she was the only real scoring threat...