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...Every day we’re losing,” he said. “We’re working and working and working, but it’s not doing anything.” Varua also cited problems with the Out of Town building, where eight to nine employees work. “When you wake up in the morning, you see a cracked window,” he said. “Only one panel is working for the electric lights, the heat isn’t working, all the pictures around the store are falling apart...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Facing Lease Problems, Newsstand May Soon Close | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Achebe read nine of his poems that explored African culture and history, with a focus on his Igbo heritage. He wove together vignettes from his various works of a mother in a refugee camp, Christmas in Biafora, and vultures picking at carcasses...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Achebe’s Poems Awe Listeners | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...grants, said he had hoped that the city’s affordable housing projects would be eligible. But the projects are privately-owned, and only city-owned buildings qualify for the grant program, Healy said. If the City does not secure the grant, it will apply again in nine to 12 months, he added. The Council also discussed efforts to implement a bicycle share program for the Boston region. Assistant City Manager Beth Rubenstein said that a regional program would be more feasible than the Cambridge-only bike sharing program that the Council had floated previously. “We?...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Seeks Clean Energy Grant | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...been from out of state, but most are local. A majority of the children are older than 13 and have a history of being treated for mental-health issues. Nearly every abandoned child came from a single-parent household. In September, one father walked into a hospital and left nine children, ages 1 to 17. He reportedly told hospital workers that he'd been overwhelmed since his wife died a few days after their youngest was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abandoned Children of Nebraska | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...inevitable that a gangster with ambitions like Alperon would step on his rivals' toes. Once before, they had tried to kill him with a car bomb. Another time, police had caught four Belarusan hit men who were shadowing him. His older brother Nissim, 55, has survived nine assassination attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Tel Aviv's Old-Fashioned Mob Kingpin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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