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Because of its size—California has as many uninsured as Massachusetts has citizens??the Schwarzenegger plan leaves no funding source untapped, and in so doing, ruffles a lot of feathers. The plan has some controversial points, such as covering the children of illegal immigrants and diverting money from state-financed charity care programs. Opponents of the proposal have noted rightly that making health insurance partly dependent on employment puts the most vulnerable in society at greatest risk of slipping through the cracks, even through a supposedly improved safety net. The last thing a recently fired worker...
...important to talk about is not that fact, but rather what justice and peace mean to each,” the organization said. As the HSI gathering drew to a close, a “Walk for Peace” demonstration—put on weekly by Cambridge citizens??traveled by with its own plea for peace in Iraq...
...time when pre-professionalism and strict functionalism are omnipresent, instruction in areas where an immediate real world link cannot always be found must be preserved and enhanced. History, literature, and the arts must be taught for their own sake, not because they make us “global citizens?? or prepare us for Wall Street...
...engage fully in a meritocratic society.While the new Gen Ed proposal eschews anything even remotely like a core set of knowledge, its goals are similar to those of the Red Book’s. “Harvard should seek...to inspire its students to become active and engaged citizens?? reads the report. This is a citizenship based on the post-9/11—not post-Pear Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding of American culture, foreign cultures, and religions. “I think both the Red Book and our report...
...good.”But high housing prices leave many stuck outside the city limits.“Many people who work in Cambridge can’t afford to live here,” Elie Yarden, a board member of the Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods, said at a citizens?? forum in the Cambridge Senior Center following the presentation of the survey.It’s not the first time that Cantabrigians have complained about sky-high housing costs—23 percent of residents listed housing as their top concern in the city’s last...