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...sites lacked adequate access to amenities like public transportation. “It’s not a Harvard takeover. In fact, for your information, Harvard would not even dare to approach any institution, especially a low-income housing community, because of the bad press that they would have gotten,” says Lawrence Fiorentino, a member of the apartments’ Board of Directors, whose mother chaired the board until she passed away in October, and whose family ties to the area extend back to the early part of the century when his great-grandfather owned a farm...
...Things only get worse with Opal’s supporting cast. It’s like Viswanathan has gotten herself permanently stuck in the second scene of a bad teen movie, the one where the camera pans the high school’s sunny front lawn, stopping at each clique long enough to let the skateboarders puff their pot, the jocks flex their muscles, and the cheerleaders bounce their boobs, and then moving on—except Viswanathan never leaves...
...home,” she said. “Even though there are fewer people here to fence, they’re a lot more motivated and it’s a lot friendlier and more intense. “I actually think my fencing has gotten better here, which is not true of most college fencers.” Ungar has had an impressive season too, from his gold in epee in NCAAs to a victory in the January World Cup in Germany that included a win over Steffen Launer, the eventual gold medalist at the World Junior Championships...
...workers, the late John Chafee, a Republican Senator from Rhode Island, proposed a similar, so-called "individual mandate," which more than a dozen of his Republican colleagues supported. The other parts of the Massachusetts initiative, such as increasing tax credits and getting more children enrolled in public programs, have gotten support from Republicans such as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Democrats like Senator John Kerry. And unlike other issues, where Democrats and Republicans approach them as if they are from completely different planets, both parties largely agree that rising health care costs and a growing number of uninsured...
...takes precedent over all else once that first pitch crosses the plate in early April, an addiction more powerful than caffeine (you’ll be up at 4 A.M. scouring free agents for a power bat to sub into your anemic infield) or narcotics (you’ve gotten high on Dodgers outfielder J.D. Drew’s monstrous home run power and continually draft him despite his penchant for injuries that cripple your team...