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...PTSA, which was launched last October, is the first in the nation to be associated with a juvenile reformatory school; its membership is made up mostly of teachers, guards and officials at the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, where the school is located and the teens live in secured cinderblock cottages. Only one parent has paid her $6 annual dues, but Murphy has heard from others who plan to sign up during the official PTSA kickoff meeting at an open house at the school this Friday...
...NBC’s “The Office,” and B.J. Averell ’02, the winner of last year’s “Amazing Race,” on CBS, hosted a show in Sanders Theatre in which they awarded Saget honorary membership to the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Of the event, Saget says, “I love Harvard. It was a very special night for me,” but gripes that Harvard (or perhaps...
...second consecutive week, the Cambridge City Council broke into fierce debate over one councillor’s request to alter the membership of its Neighborhood Safety Committee, a task force charged with addressing crime problems following a rise in robberies and assaults during the summer of 2006. However, much of the furor surrounded the Cambridge Chronicle, a local newspaper that has recently published several editorials criticizing the management of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 in forming the Committee. During last week’s meeting, Councillor E. Denise Simmons put forth a resolution that would have increased...
...upon China’s annexation of Tibet, currently reside in India. Although their numbers have dwindled from the standard 900 who had originally resided in Tibet’s capital city, Lhasa, the comparatively large group of young monks who have joined in exile have helped their membership to increase. They are among the most elite of all Tibetan monks, and their liturgical traditions some of the most esoteric. The monks’ multiphonic technique, in which individuals have the ability to produce up to three notes simultaneously, is incredibly rare and thought to be a sign of extremely...
Labour needed that cash. At the beginning of the 1990s, the party was close to bankruptcy. Most of its income came from labor unions, but union membership had dwindled, and party membership, another source of funds, had more than halved from a high in the 1950s of 1 million. (It is now less than 200,000.) Blair took over the helm of the party in 1994 and with the help of Levy, a self-made multimillionaire who started his fortune managing middle-of-the-road rock bands, began romancing the business community. The strategy paid off handsomely; business rushed...