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...Security Council is more inclined to keep them dumb. The U.S. and Britain were forced Wednesday to hold back a revised sanctions program they had hoped to have in place when the current oil-for-food program expires on June 4. Instead, the Security Council voted Thursday to simply extend the existing sanctions package and the oil-for-food program that allows Iraq to purchase its basic food and medical needs...
...time of King, the movement to tear down segregation so overshadowed every other item on the black agenda that having one figure to symbolize its urgency was almost inevitable. But the black America of 2001 is vastly different--an increasingly middle-class, multifarious ethnic group whose interests extend far beyond civil rights. There is no way for any single leader, no matter how gifted, to represent its conflicting, complicated concerns. A majority of blacks, for example, favor experiments with school vouchers, but Jackson opposes them. In what sense can he be said to be speaking for black people on this...
Last week Cambridge Representative Alice K. Wolf presented a bill to the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation seeking to extend T operating hours until 2:30 a.m. every night. The members of the Committee have favored a wait-and-see approach based upon an annual trial of extended bus hours on weekends to study the feasibility of late-night travel in the Boston area. While we would welcome late-night buses running to and from Harvard Square, we would encourage members of the committee to think daringly and decisively and to give Boston adequate late-night transportation both...
...benefits of the new contract extend to workers in the Science Center's Greenhouse Café, like Henry Rodrigues...
Because the records were relatively standardized, Snowdon could extend his study of aging far beyond the few years in late life that such studies traditionally cover. Most precious of all were the autobiographies written by each sister on her entry into the order. They were full of basic information about where the sisters were born, who their parents and siblings were, and why each one decided to join the order. With these documents, moreover, Snowdon now had an objective measure of the sisters' cognitive abilities while they were still young and in their prime. An epidemiologist could not have designed...