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...commend the UC for moving forward on cost-neutral solutions to the current lack of hot morning options. While “bringing back hot breakfast” may seem like a tall order in the face of school-wide budget cuts, Bowman and Hysen deserve praise for setting the foundation to fulfill their campaign promise in a realistic and efficient manner...
...special election for the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex State Senate seat will be held on May 11. The seat was vacated in January when former Senator Anthony D. Galluccio was imprisoned for an alcohol-related probation violation. While the ballot for the special election will not be finalized until next Wednesday, as many as ten candidates may be seeking the seat...
...Sylvie—haunted by the shocking cruelty of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the 1930s—may be the most damaged of all. The daughter of murdered missionaries, Sylvie has devoted her life to altruism. Yet for her beneficiaries, Sylvie’s presence teeters precipitously between providing mercy and causing pain. Her relentless need to numb herself to the vibrancy of life—to escape into the dulling throes of opium—destroys Hector, June, and her husband, who find it impossible to sever their connection to this fading woman and her elusive love...
Quick Flix, the DVD rental place on Bow Street, is going out of business. Any grief I may have felt for this Harvard Square institution was assuaged by their clearance sale, where all DVDs were sold for five dollars. By the time I got to the store, most of the high-end Criterion Collection DVDs had been snatched, and the quality offerings of the drama, action and comedy sections had been picked over pretty thoroughly. Yet one wall (or, more accurately, one corner), had been left more or less untouched: the documentary section...
...fair, this may have been related to the store’s long-standing policy of allowing anyone who rented a movie, fiction or nonfiction, to take out a documentary for free. When I asked the cashier about the policy last year, he explained that “people definitely have an interest in seeing documentaries, but not so much that they want to pay for it.” While this may well have resulted in the enlightenment of Cambridge’s unwashed masses on topics spanning from Spinal Tap to sharks, it also reinforced the perception...