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...being completed.Reeves spent a year on a fellowship in Africa and attended the University of Michigan Law School and eventually returned to Cambridge with Johnson.Reeves, a Detroit native, says that going to law school made him miss his college city. “There’s no comparison between Ann Arbor and Cambridge,” he says.After working as a lawyer for several years, Reeves mounted his first City Council campaign in 1985. He lost—but ultimately won a seat four years later.A VISION OF CAMBRIDGEReeves says he would like to see more students follow...
...especially provocative comparison likens women acting like men to “Uncle Tom” blacks, in that “not only does Tom submit to the system that oppresses him, he actively strives for the love of his oppressor and loves him in return...
After about forty minutes, the bus pulls onto Wellesley’s campus. The bus drives past a wooded lake and castle-like structures—maybe the Rapunzel comparison is not totally unwarranted. The bus stops and unloads, and we set out to find the Hell’s Angels party...
...year," says Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead author of the study, which he presented at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, Mo. "This year it will lose more than twice as much." By comparison, he says, in 1996 Greenland dumped 90 times as much water into the sea as Los Angeles consumed; last year it was up to 225 times. "In the next 10 years," says Rignot, "it wouldn't surprise me if the rate doubled again...
...advantage for Bush was that it meant Cheney could be the lightning rod, draw the fire away from the President and not much care how badly he was burned. Every good cop needs a bad cop, the partner who leans so far forward that Bush can seem measured in comparison, even as together they haul the entire debate further and further toward their shared vision. Cheney came into office talking about treaties that deserved to be broken, like the ABM Treaty, and powers that needed to be restored. In Cheneyland, it is gospel that Congress took far too much authority...