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Menino, who is sometimes jokingly referred to as “mayor for life,” came to power in 1993 and has since either run unopposed or dominated elections with a large majority of votes. He has maintained approval ratings in the low 70s over the past few years despite the economic slump and criticism of Boston’s public school system, according to surveys by the Boston Globe. A poll from May found that 57 percent of Boston residents claimed to have met the Mayor personally...
...blog of the same name before we went to Annenberg for dinner. By and large, though, I’ve had to keep my interest closeted at Harvard, despite it being a big part of my life. Very few people here know much about cars, and very few care, either. Why learn about the merits of multilink suspensions when you can learn about an exciting topic in psychology, economics, biology, philosophy, or Folklore and Mythology? Every once in a while, I slip a reference to my hobby into a conversation to see if anyone will bite, but people rarely...
There were no Cirque du Soleil acrobats pirouetting around the ceiling. No celebrity red carpeteers. No Happiest Mayor - a nickname for Las Vegas gladhander Oscar Goodman - cavorting about his city, a showgirl on either hip. Just a day when economically troubled Sin City began offering thousands of jobs to people hungry for them...
...your author's note that this book is not a novel. And yet it's not nonfiction. So what is it? In the literary world, it's either called a work of speculation - "What if something happened?" "What if somebody did this?" - or a practical utopia. We haven't had many practical utopias. Russell Jacoby, a professor out in California, wrote a book called The End of Utopia in 1999, which argues that the idea of imagining better futures has diminished, as we wallow more and more in our desperate state of societal and governmental decay. So I tried...
...when visiting the excellent and imaginatively laid-out D.D.R. Museum in Berlin, www.ddr-museum.de, and its equivalent in Dresden, www. ddr-museum-dresden.de, doubtless goes a long way toward explaining the popularity of these vast repositories of recent history. Visitors in Germany for the 20th-anniversary party would do well to put either institution on the itinerary. "The D.D.R. was more than an artificial product of ideology and power - for millions of people it was their life," states the Berlin museum's comprehensive guidebook, introducing displays of everything from electronic goods to intricately reconstructed shop and household interiors...