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...state revenue, according to Patrick’s press statement. Among the affected Cambridge initiatives are the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Center for Families, and the North Cambridge Crime Task Force. CHA, a Harvard-affiliated public hospital system that operates in more than 20 locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area, had its funding cut by $55 million. The Alliance, which had begun to lay off 9 percent of its workforce before the budgetary reduction, is trying to find new ways of financing its activities. Patrick’s fiscal action plan reduces the funding for North Cambridge Crime Task...
...next five years does not include a provision for the Alliance. Keefe said that he would meet with State Secretary of Health and Human Services JudyAnn Bigby tomorrow to try to appeal the state cuts. CHA is a public hospital system that has several locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area. Many of its services are aimed at low income patients, including 150 beds to serve psychiatric inpatients and substance abuse recovery services, according to Keefe. The Alliance had already been facing financial woes. It cut discretionary spending in February and is in the process of laying off 9 percent...
...Rose George Metropolitan; 288 pages...
...Although the State Department started a program of heavily fortifying its embassies against terrorism, some residents saw the Grosvenor Square site as vulnerable. In 2006, a neighborhood association, the Grosvenor Square Safety Group, bought two-page advertisements in The Washington Post and the Times of London that accused the Metropolitan Police and local governments of a moral failure for not closing the two roads adjacent to the embassy. Russian Countess Anca Vidaeff, who lived across from the embassy's side entrance, even held a three-day hunger strike to protest what she claimed was inadequate security. "My property...
...industrialized countries for the past five years. Policy makers and the general public readily admit that mental illness - even a common disorder like depression - is rarely talked about openly in the country. "Koreans are very secretive about psychiatric problems," says Lee Myung Soo, a psychiatrist at the Seoul Metropolitan Mental Health Centre who agrees that one of the main reasons that people won't talk about it here is fear of losing one's job. More people will probably seek treatment because of Choi's death, explains Lee. But he also fears that there will be more suicides...