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...School Committee has more influence over their jurisdiction than the City Council.” McGovern spent about $5,000 less than the lowest-spending successful council candidate, and close to a third of the budget of the highest-spending. Kelley hypothesized that the lower expenditures by school committee candidates reflect a relatively small, passionate constituency of parents, compared to the larger number of Cantabrigians, who participate in council elections. Councillors said their high costs were due to the difficulty of informing voters of their candidacy, and spent much of their money on flyers, yard signs and stickers. For example...
...wrote his senior thesis on governmental reform and volunteered for the Phillips Brooks House Association. During his senior year, his teaching fellow in a Spanish class put him in touch with a school on Manhattan’s lower east side, which catered to at-risk Latino youth. After graduation, he worked there for two years before returning to Boston and continuing his role as an educator there...
...public health care and educations systems improved to be among the best in Latin America. Universal medical coverage was one of the foundational principles upon which the Castro regime operated, and the success of its health care initiatives has left Cuba with an infant mortality rate lower than that of the United States. Cuba also boasts an average life expectancy comparable to that of the U.S., a real rarity in the Latin American world. Moreover, Castro’s Cuba reached one of the highest rates of literacy in the world as a result of its comprehensive public education network...
...tracks are virtually free of typical indie obfuscation. There are no synths or vocoders. They’ve rightly realized that synthesis is not the same as pastiche, and that artists don’t need to act like fools or limit themselves to frivolity in order to create lower and therefore achievable expectations.Still, I’m reluctant to make any type of messianic claims about the band. I admit—bashfully—that I learned that lesson at a tender age with the Arctic Monkeys. That said, any step towards separating out the smarminess of modern...
...cocktails at the Croatian and U.S. embassies. Flames licked up to the second floor of the old brick building which is located in the heart of the capital. Serbian paramilitary police, arriving in Humvees, dispersed the crowd using tear gas. But firefighters later discovered a charred body in a lower room. The embassy had been largely empty at the time and US officials say all employees have since been accounted for; the body is believed to be that of a protester...