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Alice K. Wolf is the Massachusetts state representative for the 25th Middlesex District, which includes the University’s entire Cambridge campus. She received her master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government and served as a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...will take years. By the end of last week, food, water, medicines, tents, blankets and emergency teams were flowing into the disaster zone. But for every life saved, every child fed, every family housed, countless others continue to suffer and go without. In the village of Pundong in Bantul district, the hardest-hit area with 60% of the fatalities, 60-year-old farmer Sumiardi has been camping out beside his home with his wife and two children, even though it has been smashed to rubble. "We have been waiting for days for some kind of help," says Sumiardi. "Luckily...
...parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 signed a petition supporting Randall’s work. Nonetheless, in April 2001, U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell blocked the publication of the novel, writing that it “constitutes unabated piracy of ‘Gone With the Wind.”’But “The Wind Done Gone” wasn’t gone for long.Just one month later...
...steps should be taken to reverse the trend. According to numbers provided by the Massachusetts Department of Education, Cambridge Public School enrollment decreased from 6,927 students in 2002 to 5,746 in 2006, a four-year decline of more than 17 percent. Over the past 11 years, the district has lost over 27 percent of its students. The hearing, which was specially called to address the declining enrollment, was held in a roundtable format, meaning that committee members could speak freely but the public could not ask questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last...
...ranking into the championship tournament, the highest ranking ever for a Crimson doubles team. Anderson finished 21-3 in singles matches during Harvard’s dual meets, earning her Second Team All-Ivy honors, and her performance as a student earned her a place on the Academic All-District team. Over the course of her four seasons, Anderson became the winningest player in Harvard women’s tennis history. She graduates with a record of 192-59 in both doubles and singles, surpassing the 185-67 mark of Kathy Vigna ’87. Harvard...