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Cambridge is not the only city that has been agitating for money. From Newton, Mass. to New Haven, Conn. to Evanston, Ill., cities have gone looking to universities within their borders to provide much-needed funds in the wake of the recession...
...these towns have persuaded their universities to pound out tax agreements as substantial as Harvard's. Newton Mayor Theodore Mann, for instance, says he is looking for more generous reciprocation from his city's five colleges, the largest of which is Boston College...
There are numerous skeptics, including female religious thinkers. Carole Fontaine of Andover Newton Theological School, for one, complains that feminist writers delete historical evidence that is "embarrassing or contradictory." Carol Meyers of Duke University argues that there is no proof that the figurines cited by Gimbutas were objects of worship, much less representations of a single Goddess. None of that, however, has deterred adherents. Whether they are reviving a vanished faith or inventing a new one, it is the gender of the deity that counts...
Grease, made legendary by the movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, focuses on the high school romance of Danny Zuko (Adam Freed) and Sandy Dumbrowski (Faith Salie). Their summer fling is put to the test when Sandy unexpectedly enrolls in Rydell, Danny's high school, and must fit in with his friends. They are the decidedly cool T-Birds and Pink Ladies who do not readily accept good girl Dumbrowski. Sandy's eventual conversion into a spandex-clad vixen has Danny on his knees and the rest of Rydell cheering...
Munro said the group plans to establish service projects where students would tutor Italian-American children and talk with elderly Italian immigrants in the North End and in Newton...