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...it’s too darn expensive, residents said in a survey unveiled by city officials yesterday.City Manager Robert W. Healy presented the results of a biannual citizen satisfaction survey to Cambridge’s nine council members—and five onlookers—in the Sullivan Chamber at City Hall yesterday.In the telephone survey of 400 city residents, conducted by the firm Opinion Dynamics last month, 22 percent said that “housing/affordable housing/rent control” is “the single most important issue facing the City of Cambridge today.”Only...
...Company,” which features an updated book, represents one such hybridization of the mothballed and the modern. Directed by John Doyle—whose recently transformation of Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” from operatic orgasm to claustrophobic chamber piece met with critical acclaim—the show’s 14 performers also double as cast and orchestra, a truly modern touch.Doyle is a dramatic craftsman par excellence—his revival of “Sweeney” was one of the most thrilling nights of theater...
Last Thursday, the French parliament exacerbated existing tensions between European states and Turkey, which is in talks to join the European Union. In an overwhelming 109-19 vote, the lower chamber of the French National Assembly unwisely passed a bill to criminalize the denial of the 1915 genocide of Armenians on Turkish soil. The French Senate and President have the chance to bury the bill, and we hope they take it. Unsurprisingly, the Turkish government reacted swiftly against this bill, as have Turkish emigrants all over Europe. Some Turkish parliament members proposed a law criminalizing the denial of the French...
...construction of new houses this year, it still needs a further 1.6 million new units to meet the shortfall in low-income housing needs, according to official figures. Only around one-eighth of that total has been built under Chavez's tenure, according to the Venezuelan real estate chamber...
...creates life in London as it might have been lived between 1724 and 1919. Each room captures a different era, but the attention to detail never wavers: a discarded wig on a chair; a quill resting in an inkwell; crumpets toasting on a crackling fire; a half-filled chamber pot hidden under a chaise longue. Unlike most museums there are no cordoned-off areas - visitors are encouraged to roam freely. Hidden tape recordings of a chiming grandfather clock, a muffled conversation in another room and the clip-clop of horses' hooves on the street evoke the historic atmosphere...