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...opinion columns, finger-pointing is de rigueur. So I sat down and scoured Cambridge records, trying to figure out who was responsible for this mess. The City of Cambridge? A 1999 City report on homelessness argued that “Cambridge offers a continuum of care through a coordinated-but-decentralized network of diverse programs and services operated by local government agencies, private non-profit organizations, churches, and homeless-led organizations.” And the City and its non-profit allies do seem to know a lot and care a lot about the local homeless community...
...could not be clearer. Clay led the council in two important roles. As the council’s Liaison to student organizations, Clay ensured that their interests were brought to the administration and to the council. As the council’s Treasurer, he has cleaned up the mess of bounced checks written by his predecessor...
...meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx’s almost perfect portrayal of Ray Charles...
...gets hit by a vehicle he Galahads her into a cab. They are strangers, but in the forced intimacy of a back seat she removes his glasses, breathes on them and returns them. Her flirtation is a way of both expressing interest and asserting control. (You're a mess, her fiddling says, but I'm thinking of taking...
...cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan--a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition--which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving...