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...need of improvement,” which is not a great showing for the birthplace of American public education. If these districts don’t shape up, their schools could face anything from state interference in their administrative policies to a state takeover. Massachusetts??s performance was fairly standard. Iowa, California and Alabama—states rarely mentioned in the same breath when it comes to education policy—all fell in the same general territory as the Bay State...
...reiterated. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts?? denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise of freedom to all. Centuries of women, ethnic and religious minorities and immigrants, for example, have all seen the zealousness...
Judging by the relative ease with which Kennedy has won seven consecutive terms in the Senate, he seems to be friends with all of Massachusetts?? six million residents. Over the course of his 42 year Senate career, Kennedy has become a prominent liberal legislator—fighting for civil rights and affordable health care—and a senior statesman in the Democratic Party. He inherited the role from his two older brothers, President John F. Kennedy ’40 and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy ’48, after they were both assassinated...
Eventually, the entire University community—and the state of Massachusetts??will have to think seriously about renewable energy. But, for now, at least those in Quincy House will have some piece of mind when they flick on their light switches...
Regardless, Leahy’s fourth inning missile to left proved to be the decisive run in the Harvard baseball team’s 11-6 Beanpot loss to the Eagles (15-19) at Brockton, Massachusetts?? Campanelli field, home to the independent Northeast League’s Brockton...