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While deficits loom over the State House, Cambridge actually has $28 million in surplus cash on hand to deal with emergencies. And in recent years the city has increased the amount of property taxes it can levy, which will lend the city council more flexibility when discussions on next year’s budget begin in several weeks...
...section of his year-old eatery, due as much to the decreased number of visitors as to the start of the rainy season. Instead, guests dine on a breezy verandah overlooking a lush forest of banana trees, palms, orchids and ginger flowers. Ceiling fans and geckos on the hunt lend an equatorial air, but the fine linens, crystal stemware and impeccable service could be straight out of a Michelin-starred Parisian gem. The six-course tasting menu ($26)?starting with a delicate amuse bouche of parmesan and rosemary, and ending with a decadent chocolate mousse souffl? served with coconut sorbet...
Indeed, Boston will lend an important spirit to the next convention. The ideological base of the Democratic Party is most prominent here; this nation’s patriotic roots originate in Old North Church, the Freedom Trail, Lexington and Concord. Perhaps some of that revolutionary feeling will rub off on a party currently starving for focus—especially if they hope to beat an immensely popular wartime president...
According to IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches a course on the American presidency (taken by Al Gore ’69 when he was an undergrad), Harvard does lend some power in the path to the highest office in the nation. “Reaching the presidency involves long odds, but having a Harvard degree doesn’t hurt,” he writes in an e-mail...
Paulin should have come here to speak. We disagree strongly with his views, yet the best way to combat them is through constructive and mature debate. Alas, as the Staff opinion shows, the current climate on campus does not lend itself to the measured and thoughtful discussion which Paulin and his poetry both deserve and require...