Word: matters
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Natalie J.J. Smith, a staff member at Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a Cambridge community organization that seeks to defend the rights of the city's tenant and immigrant populations said as a matter of principle immigrant parents should have the right to vote in the School Committee elections...
...issue against her. And several weeks ago, an anonymous caller told Steele's sister that Steele should back Willey's story "if she knows what's good for her and her son." The family has received no word about the results of an FBI probe into the matter. Starr's spokesman has said he couldn't discuss the case. But Steele does know one thing: "I feel I have been strapped to the train track...
Would it be so farfetched to envision a society that in the name of efficiency and convenience (the best thing for everyone, really, under the circumstances) practiced Kevorkianism as a matter of routine in every community? Time for the ice floe, Pop. Such is the little black Pandora's box that popped open in my mind as I watched 60 Minutes...
...wage increased later to a daily $10, it proved a critical component of Ford's quest to make the automobile accessible to all. The critics were too stupid to comprehend that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didn't matter--except for making it feasible for more people to buy cars...
...What made Germany susceptible to fascism--for that matter, what made Germany receptive to the Hohenzollerns and Bismarck? Is there something in German culture that perennially leads to autocratic aggression? These are the questions which the artists of the Weimar Republic, that butterfly-fragile democracy which governed Germany between World War I and Hitler's ascension in 1933, were beginning to ask themselves; and they are also the questions which we inevitably ask of Weimar...