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Most of the student workers had worked last year's audit, Platt said, so they were used to working with such an unusual subject...
...mandated to spend at least 60 percent of the money on our grants fund, and this year, we chose to allocate about $100,000 to student group grants. That's 67.5 percent of this year's budget plus any rollover from grants that weren't picked up last year...
When I was a first-year, people hated Springfest because the council could only afford to bring a band called God Street Wine to perform. Maybe 500 people showed up. Last year, over 3,000 people came to Springfest because the Violent Femmes were a bigger name and the rides and games that we had were more fun. But we basically scraped the bottom of the barrel for money and this year, we may not be able to do the same because we don't have any extra money lying around like we did last year...
...More adventurous commercial galleries and various cooperatives have congregated in the last several years along Harrison and Thayer, a sparsely populated area of warehouses, some rehabilitated and some abandoned, on the outskirts of the South End. As gallery director Bernard Toale puts it, the "landscape-and-sailboat dealers will never want to come down here." The difference between the Newbury and the South End galleries is apparent on several levels. On Newbury, the general emphasis is on representational painting; in the South End, I saw more mixed media. In the South End, the directors are chatty and amiable, even towards...
There will, of course, be inevitable comparisons to last year's enormously popular Italian comedy about the Holocaust, Life is Beautiful. Both movies provide a positive affirmation of life and humanity through a comic examination of tragic events. But Train of Life, which was actually written before anyone had ever heard of Life is Beautiful, has earned its many international awards and praises on its own merits. It is not, by any means, the same movie. Mihaileanu takes a more collective look at how people react to tragedy, and through this study in optimism, tries to give us a broader...