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Regardless of where the blame lies, the three recent accidents on the MBTA’s escalators and elevators have drawn attention to safety concerns on the subway system...
...environment like this, even the most determined journalists can be ineluctably drawn into the compromising circles of provincial patronage. Despite the popular perception of journalists as self-serving, streetwise operators, the truth is that many young, idealistic Filipinos entering the profession are simply too ingenuous to cope with the bruising feuds and bloody grudges that pass for local politics in the developing world. It's easy to make enemies in the rural Philippines. Given the wide availability of handguns and hit men, exacting revenge is also a trifle. And assassinating an irksome reporter strikes some media targets as a much...
...facing Tsang? The biggest is the growing demand in Hong Kong for greater democracy, which often manifests itself in the form of mass street protests. The public will also carefully watch what Tsang does regarding the city's West Kowloon Cultural District, a huge real estate project that has drawn accusations of collusion between the government and Big Business. Then there's the state of the harbor, Hong Kong's most precious natural resource; air pollution; worsening traffic; conservation; the widening wealth gap?in short, everything you'd expect from the educated and cosmopolitan society Hong Kong has become...
...stop. Adding to a list of past leadership positions of committees that work on the issue across departments and universities, he’s now co-chairing Harvard’s Undergraduate Working Group of the Task Force on Women in Science. The group of male and female students, drawn from chemistry to computer science, met for the first time on Tuesday. The Working Group will submit proposals by the end of May, says Mariangela Lisanti ’05, co-chair of the Task Force and president of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR). Georgi wants to concentrate...
...responded that “Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can’t be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it.” When faced with such clear prejudice from the President’s point man on the issue, it is hard to take seriously Bush’s mantra that “We ought to judge faith-based groups by results, not by their religion...