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Among the greatest privileges in my life has been the chance to meet with Senator Edward M. Kennedy. My few conversations with him during my time at Harvard focused mostly on civic education, and showcased the kindness and caring which has been so eloquently eulogized during the past week. His willingness to discuss policy issues with me—an undergraduate—left me in awe of his deep desire not only to do good himself, but to serve as an example and guide for others looking to do the same. As someone who believes strongly in public service...
...Nowhere else than at a sporting event can you gain a greater sense of the city. Because sports are the common denominator between the working stiff and the Brahmin, these venues play host to a mosaic that best represents the region: the civic pride, the self-deprecating humor, the external cynicism, the private hope—all the qualities that give Beantown its wicked distinct charactah...
...Some rooms are known to throw pretty solid events. These suites, scattered around the campus but most highly concentrated in the Quad (to compensate for the fact that the administration hates Quadlings), are usually freshman boy friendly venues. And their inhabitants fully accept their civic responsibility to host underclassmen. Freshman boys, keep your ears peeled for get-togethers hosted at what we’ll call alternative venues: upperclassmen houses, party suites, the occasional dining hall. We’re willing to wager that more freshmen attended Heaven and Hell in Currier House on Halloween weekend than the freshman formal...
...automakers, the current program requires new-car purchases and doesn't mandate huge jumps in gas mileage. Happily, the first wave of buyers opted for cars more fuel-efficient than the law demands. The top three sellers in the first week were the Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic (all made in the U.S. but with lots of foreign parts). Now the turned-in vehicles (the Ford Explorer led the list) are headed for the scrapyard, but only after their engines are snuffed with a solution of liquid glass (sodium silicate) to keep them from ever befouling...
...news. There's already at least one profitable local-news site in town. Mary Morgan, 48, a former News staffer, and her husband Dave Askins, 44, started the Ann Arbor Chronicle last September. It specializes in long-form accounts of local council, school-board and other civic-association meetings. "I hand-tooled most of the HTML myself," says Askins. (He learned on his other site, Teeter Talk - word-for-word transcriptions of interviews with local figures on the couple's teeter-totter.) The Chronicle, says Morgan, has about 20,000 unique visitors a month and draws enough advertisers and donations...