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Carter suggested that Herms contact Mass. State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, D.-Cambridge, who is also the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Safety. After the bill was passed along to Barrios, who introduced it to the State Senate, Representative Alice Wolf, D.-Middlesex, co-sponsored the bill in the house, along with Representative Tim Toomey, D.-Middlesex...
Parity does not equal popularity, and coed scholastic wrestling remains a contentious issue. For the very young--in some wrestling clubs, coed matches start as early as age 6--it's just cublike fun. As children mature, however, many critics find problems with coed contact. The demands of the mat--raw and primal aggression--seem to go against the qualities our culture instills in girls. And for boys, wrestling against girls seems to contravene the lessons they were taught about not hurting girls and keeping their hands to themselves. Texas and Hawaii ban coed matches in high school, so these...
...dealing with the delicate issue of Taiwan, most governments follow the American model. They vow at regular intervals that they recognize only One China?the People's Republic?but then send diplomatic personnel to Taipei (under commercial cover), trade with the Un-China, and maintain discreet official contact. The much heavier burden of maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait?making sure China doesn't try to take Taiwan by force, or Taipei doesn't provoke Beijing into trying?is shouldered by Washington alone...
...less as the subject than as the starting point of a narrative dominated by the strong-willed women who tell it. In fact, although the book jacket proclaims My Jim a “nuanced critique of the great American novel,” it makes little direct contact with Twain’s text. Miss Watson, the sister of the Widow Douglas, Huck’s adoptive mother and owner from whom Jim has fled, shows up sporadically, but the one direct reference to the eponymous rapscallion appears only on the 132nd of 161 pages. Jim himself seems more...
...story: Having amassed an unmanageable number of contacts over the course of Napster’s legal battle, Sean Parker had an idea for an electronic address book tool that would automatically organize and update contact information. Plaxo partnered with Sequoia Capital to launch the project. To date, Sequoia has helped Plaxo raise $20 million in venture money. Four years later, Plaxo now has more than five million users and is on its way to becoming a profitable corporation. The only thing Plaxo doesn’t have is Parker, who left the company in April of last year...