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When a superbly competent, dedicated, well-liked dean is so summarily let go, because he has clear ideas about the well-being of the whole student, and perhaps because he is a leader as well as an administrator, it bodes ill for our university. Whatever process of reorganization of undergraduate education is now developed, it will have to be carried forward by a College staff disillusioned and unhappy about the sudden departure of the chief who brought them on board, and whose sense of mission about the College has always been contagious. Harvard College is a poorer place for Dean...
While Bonds has returned to school and is now the operations director for Blackout Boston, an arts group for people of color, he said most inmates show the ill effects of their confinement after leaving prison...
Romney also proposed to save $60 million by restructuring health and human services in Massachusetts. His plan has met opposition from advocates for the poor, elderly and ill, who say that that Romney’s savings will come at the expense of services including Medicaid and nursing care. Their arguments are convincing, as Romney has already announced that he will close 36 “underutilized” health and human services offices, which will inherently reduce access to these services...
...road the Noori family's house is all but empty. Crowded into a small room only seven members are left of an extended clan of more than twenty. Four men were chosen to stay behind to protect the building and watch over the family's elderly blind matriarch, too ill to move. The doors and windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says...
Similarly, those who support war argue that the removal of Saddam Hussein will increase stability in the Middle East; but this notion is also ill conceived. In January of 1991, following the beginning of the first Gulf War, Iraq responded to attack by launching SCUD missiles into Israel. The United States prevented Israel from retaliating by arguing that doing so would destabilize the careful coalition that then-President George H.W. Bush had assembled to prosecute the war. Convincing Israel and other countries that will suffer from Iraqi attacks not to retaliate will be much more difficult if America is fighting...