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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, seeking a record fifth consecutive mayoral term, commandingly won a high-turnout preliminary contest last night and will now face City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr. in November’s final election...
...time on campus, and will even hold office hours, according to Director of the Humanities Center and Professor Homi K. Bhabha. All the lectures are held at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theater, and are free and open to the public. The next lecture will be September 29, and the final lecture will be delivered on November...
...This final bill will have three major objectives: providing near-universal coverage, improving the quality of health-insurance policies, and controlling the cost of health care (often wonkishly referred to as “bending the cost curve”). Although the legislation is likely to accomplish the first two goals, stemming health-care inflation will prove more elusive...
...shift in the timeline also means that the final vote will occur in April 2010, after a new school committee is elected...
...newly crowned czars has earned condemnation from the right, when it comes to recruiting presidential advisers he's in good company. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson appointed financier Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board - a position dubbed industry czar (this just one year after the final Russian czar, Nicholas II, was overthrown in the Russian Revolution). Franklin Roosevelt had his own bevy of czars during World War II, overseeing such aspects of the war effort as shipping and synthetic-rubber production. The term was then essentially retired until the presidency of Richard Nixon, who appointed the first...