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...issue involving a lack of hair. On his head.) Here Lynch plays Walter, a contractor from Billings, who drove all the way to Seattle for Burke's hokey seminar and, a few hours in, sensibly wants his money back. Burke has to practice some serious self-help voodoo to keep skeptical Walter on the hook, but eventually (it's an interminable seminar) he gets Walter to pull a photo of his 12-year-old son out of his wallet and recount the story of his death. At which point I wrote "almost cried" in my notebook...
...Allston residents, arguing that the plan does not include enough opportunities for home ownership, say that the project strays from established principles of urban design and will create an income-segregated North Allston neighborhood. While Harvard agreed to give nearly two more acres of land to the project to help address those concerns, some local residents maintain that the University ought to allocate even more land to the Charlesview development and surrounding areas, rather than letting the property sit vacant...
Stephanie H. Kenen, associate dean of undergraduate education, expressed frustration with the task of devising cuts without fully understanding their “sense of scale,” or actual effects on the budget, and requested that Smith provide a guideline to help administrators better correlate cuts with numbers. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter B. Machinist ’66, who expressed concern about the fate of “smaller humanistic fields” that may be in “some peril,” asked Smith to iterate his intellectual priorities...
...Marrero, meanwhile, says he spends much of his time today volunteering to help Iraq war veterans apply for their own benefits. "One of my jobs at Camp Garcia was to gauge the wind direction during those tests," he says. "If the wind ever shifted toward the population, I'd shout, 'Cease fire!' " See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...What kind of subsidies would the government offer to low-income Americans and small businesses to help them buy insurance? Starting in 2013, the Federal Government would offer a refundable tax credit to low- and middle-income individuals and families who purchase certain policies through the state exchanges. The credit would be available to individuals and families who earn up to 300% of the federal poverty level, which for a family of four would be about $66,000 in 2009. It would be provided on a sliding scale, with the level of credit "based on the percentage of income...