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...some deep shit. But one of our subjects, Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman, easily justifies our use of naughty language; in April 2005, he allegedly stole $600 worth of manure from a Rockport, Mass. farm, supposedly to use as fertilizer. His August 2005 settlement with the Gloucester district court allowed him to dodge an admission of guilt, but The Crimson reported that Charles L. “Charlie” Lane Sr., the 98-year-old farmer, purportedly caught Weitzman red-handed (brown-handed?) in the middle of his craven theft, detaining him until the police arrived...
...physically abusing an openly gay Harvard undergraduate, more than a year after the incident took place. Jose T. Sousa, 26, of Cambridge, had earlier pled not guilty to charges of intent to intimidate stemming from an incident that took place outside Adams House in April 2005. And in Middlesex District Court yesterday, Assistant District Attorney Jessica Noble successfully lobbied the judge to dismiss charges against Sousa. Timothy J. Kelleher—the other defendant in the case and the individual suspected of actually striking the victim—was also present yesterday in court, where he was scheduled to face...
...achievement gap. The committee’s roundtable—which brought together school officials, teachers, and parents—was intended to serve as a preliminary to a three-part forum about the achievement gap and ways to close it in the district. The achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level...
...Kilroy, a Franklin County Commissioner, wins this race, it would be the biggest individual victory for the House Democrats on election night, because Pryce, as the chairman of the House Republicans, is the No. 4 member of the leadership team. The Democrats see this district in Central Ohio as an opportunity to make a huge splash, as MoveOn.org and Americans United for Change, which opposes Bush's plan to revamp Social Security with private accounts, have been among the groups attacking Pryce...
...This race gets at one of the central questions of this campaign: will voters choose to dump incumbents who they think are perfectly nice people and good members to send a message to Washington and President Bush? Pryce is well-liked in the district and won 62% of the vote there in 2004, even while Bush and Kerry were split about evenly. And over the last few months, she's tried to reassure voters of her centrist views, by voting for and bragging about her support of embryonic stem cell research and raising the minimum wage, which most...