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...toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into the worst epidemic in the city's history, it was hard to doubt the official line - let alone the evidence of the senses - that the stink was to blame...
...legion lies (no one tells the truth in a Christmas newsletter), but it is also in its hubris. For what is hubris if not assuming that your distant relatives and one-time friends care a wit about the fact that you’ve been promoted to assistant district sales manager...
...gotten involved in community service." Unlike the case of outright lying, both of these statements are true, but here the tactful writer of this newsletter simply seems to have forgotten that Deborah was already six months pregnant before getting engaged and Barry was assigned his 40 hours by a district court judge...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When the president of the NAACP Cambridge chapter, Kathy A. Reddick, raised her concerns...
...College would fund the board with a $200,000 budget, the UC continued its restructuring process with an extensive debate over the future of the CLC. Eventually, the council voted to abolish the committee and accordingly reduce the size of the council to two, rather than three, representatives per district. The new “2x2” council, as Haddock termed it during last semester’s debate, began its inaugural session with the UC’s most competitive and highest-turnout general election, according to UC Treasurer Benjamin W. Milder ’08. Because...