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Tremendous, dedicated, and masterful are all adjectives that can be attributed to Crimson junior guard Jeremy Lin. Anyone who has followed Harvard’s men’s basketball this season—from Crimson reporters to Boston Globe senior writer Bob Ryan—can tell you this.He’s the best player on the court for the Crimson. His start to the season is off the charts.But the question remains whether it’s the best ever. In its storied history, Harvard has had its fair share of great basketball players. But after Lin?...
...fact, the scent of weed was redolent among Globe finalists. Robert Downey, Jr., who might have been named for his starring role in Iron Man - except that the HFPA, like the other critics groups, has an unwritten rule outlawing blockbuster action pictures - found a place in Supporting Actor, as the doped-out, blackfaced Method actor in Tropic Thunder (also from the Apatow factory). He was joined in that category by another Thunder actor, Tom Cruise. He does a splendidly sulfurous comic turn as a movie studio exec; but, as the Globe committee hardly needs to be reminded, he's also...
...turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced. Juliet Linley, Rome...
According to the Boston Globe, Harvard currently pays $1.9 million a year to the city. Boston University, which owns half as much land as Harvard, pays $4.6 million—over half of the city’s $8.1 million collected from higher education PILOTs. The city collects $32.4 million annually from PILOTs—a small sum compared to the estimated $350 million that Boston would receive if non-profits were not tax-exempt...
...talk took place amid an unprecedented global economic crisis that started in the United States but is rippling around the globe and now challenging the Chinese economy that has been booming for more than two decades...