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...Cambridge Health Alliance, the Center for Families, and the North Cambridge Crime Task Force. CHA, a Harvard-affiliated public hospital system that operates in more than 20 locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area, had its funding cut by $55 million. The Alliance, which had begun to lay off 9 percent of its workforce before the budgetary reduction, is trying to find new ways of financing its activities. Patrick’s fiscal action plan reduces the funding for North Cambridge Crime Task Force by roughly 25 percent, but the program will be able to survive in its current form...
...Hold this guy down now," said Malik, 50, eyeing the animal's horns as blood poured from its throat like an open tap. "He could kill me now." After five minutes, the blood flow began to slow, and the fight went out of the animal, which stopped kicking and lay still, breathing heavily. "O.K., it's over," said Malik. "Fine animal...
...early lead at 6-1. Harvard then came alive, pulling within two of the Bulldogs at 9-7. But Yale was not ready to give up the lead, forcing two Crimson timeouts and ultimately winning the first game 25-14. Despite a disappointing first game, Harvard would not lay down without a fight in the second. The first point of the second belonged to the Crimson, which gained a lead in the match for the first time. But Yale again came out with the win, 25-16. At the start of the third game, Kocurek took over at libero, contributing...
...Despite its absence from his public pronouncements, the Law School represented Obama’s first glimpse of the national limelight. As the first black president of the Law Review, Obama was heralded by the national press—an experience some colleagues say may have helped lay the groundwork for his later career...
...growth - according to Bain & Co and Archstone Consulting respectively - retailers are anticipating one of the toughest holiday shopping periods in decades. Consumers cut back spending in the July to September quarter by the largest amount in 28 years as they grappled with a tanking economy, tightening credit and looming lay-offs. "It's going to take excruciating deals to get people into the stores this year," says Olson. "Stores need to walk the line between big deals and still making money...