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Courtside Celtics tickets and luxurious weekend getaways were on the auction block at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub last night for the Phillips Brooks House Association’s sixth annual Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The event featured a silent auction as well as a live auction conducted by guest auctioneer and musician Livingston Taylor—the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor. With big ticket items including trips to San Francisco and tickets to games at Fenway garnering high bids, PBHA received considerable funding for its community service programs. The night?...
...really great communicator,” says Adam Ewing, the head teaching fellow of History 1452. “He is able to explain very complicated political or intellectual ideas in very clear and digestible ways...
When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold - so goes the old saying that is ironically being turned on its head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border...
...Americans want our borders secured now more than ever," declared William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration. The North Carolina-based group is calling on the Obama Administration to shut down the southern border. "This latest in a series of health threats emanating from Mexico speaks loudly for border security, and the government's failure to respond accordingly should be a wake-up call for all Americans," Gheen said in a statement posted on the group's website. (See pictures of the Great Wall of America...
...Mexico border would be a disaster of a different sort. While anti-immigration groups focus on the impact of illegal entrants to the country, there is little attention paid to the goods that flow both ways: wheat (vital for production of the Mexican staple, tortillas) and other food commodities head south, while assembled goods made from U.S. components head back north. In that mix are some products that could be essential if the flu spreads. Dr. Carlos del Rio, chairman of the global health department at Emory University, wrote in a CNN op-ed, "In the event of a serious...