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...Cambridge City Council discussed the state-wide budget cuts exceeding one billion dollars at the weekly town hall meeting yesterday. The decrease in state funding will affect many local programs in public health, safety, and education, according to a report prepared by the City Manager, Robert W. Healy. “Even though this is bad news, we have only just begun,” said Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, the vice mayor of the City of Cambridge. He said that the income generated by the capital gains tax is expected...
...said, crediting the policies of former president Bill Clinton with spurring one of the most “prosperous times in American history.” (Summers spent his term as Treasury Secretary under Clinton.) The former University President currently serves as the Chairman of Hillel’s Council of Overseers, and has long been one of the organizations key supporters, according to Paula J. Dahari, Hillel’s director of development. “The students loved him and he loved them,” Dahari said. “When he was here he felt like...
...country's top watchdog revoked the business licenses for two companies that produced adulterated wheat gluten blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America and another that shipped the diethylene glycol used in cough medicine that killed more than 100 Panamanians."While China's State Council announced new rules for stricter controls on food producers and tougher punishments for violators, poor oversight allowed producers to adulterate dairy products and animal feed with melamine until the latest scandal broke in September. And that means that after the livestock feed recall, the list of tainted products is likely...
...much-anticipated announcement, Scotland's finance secretary John Swinney gave Trump permission to go ahead with his $1.56 billion investment, overruling the local authority, Aberdeenshire council, which last year turned down Trump's development on the grounds that it would destroy the ecologically sensitive dunes...
...Great Schlep—a movement started by the Jewish Council for Education and Research to encourage Jewish grandchildren to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama—Silverman asserts that the targeted demographic won’t vote for Obama for a number of reasons. These bubbes and zaides may think “his name sounds scary; it sounds Muslim,” among other superficial issues...