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Where has TIME been for eight years? No one has tried to silence Limbaugh's trash talk on Obama. To suggest that he has been wronged is beyond the pale. Allison Simpson, LA MESA, CALIF...
...just had to shake my head at Newt Gingrich's article [March 23]. In President Barack Obama's two months in office, Gingrich says, he "has so far failed to turn around the economic decline." It took the Republicans eight years to get us into this mess with their nonexistent oversight of financial companies and their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much...
...Harvard Square was disrupted when Cambridge Police and the Cambridge bomb squad swarmed the area in response to a bomb threat. Police closed down Massachusetts Avenue, the Harvard Square MBTA stop, and several nearby Square businesses. “Where the T stop was, there must have been like eight or 10 SWAT cars and a big squad car parked there,” said Pierce E. Tria ’10. Tria said he saw Harvard and Cambridge police officers cordoning off Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets. The scare was precipitated by a call to Cambridge police made...
...Haiti,” as 100 percent of the funds will be used to rebuild homes in Haiti, where land and infrastructure were devastated by two hurricanes last summer, Fritsche said. She estimated the three-mile walk along the Charles River raised enough money to build at least eight houses. In previous years, money raised has been used to purchase operating room lights, construct housing, and fund scholarships to support 1,200 Haitian students. “Every year we ask the PIH what they need most,” said Fritsche. “Whatever...
...weekend and that the Tamil separatist fighters are now confined to a narrow coastal stretch a little more than seven miles long in northern Sri Lanka - a far cry from the vast swaths of eastern and northern Sri Lanka controlled by the insurgents just two years ago. And eight military divisions with as many as 50,000 personnel backed by air support are going in for the kill, with escape and supply routes by sea blocked off by a naval blockade. (Watch TIME's video of civilians caught in the Sri Lankan civil...