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Unlike most IHOP’s, the Cambridge branch will not stay open later than 2 a.m. because they failed to obtain the requisite license from the Cambridge License Association last March...
Moreover, the MBTA will essentially reward those who actually depend on the system by taxing those who are only occasional riders. Regular riders will be able to obtain and register reusable plastic CharlieCards at select retail locations, which will enable them to receive free transfers and lower fares. Occasional riders—such as tourists and most Harvard students—will have to purchase disposable paper CharlieTickets at subway and bus stations and will have to pay surcharges and an additional transfer fee. In other words, the MBTA fares are designed for working people who truly rely...
...return to religion and Protestant values. No matter how much some conservatives may wish it, that era is over. William F. Buckley, still shamelessly venerated by the conservative establishment, opposed meritocratic admissions for racial and ethnic minorities at Yale in 1967 when he ran a guerilla campaign to obtain a seat on the Yale Corporation (he lost). Being a minority, I, like many others, am indebted to the liberal revolution...
...illegal for U.S. citizens and residents because of the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba,” says the Web site for the Office of International Programs (OIP). Study in Cuba has recently become more difficult because of new regulations that make it trickier for Harvard to obtain licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The new rules, says Lorena G. Barberia, an OIP program associate, “mean substantially less licenses.” In 2003, Barberia says, the U.S. government issued 181 licenses for study programs nationwide; in 2005, they offered fewer than 70. Harvard?...
...immediate aftermath of the revelations of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal, outraged legislators on Capitol Hill promised to do something about the evils of pretexting - the shady practice of impersonating someone to obtain that individual's personal information that was at the center of the company's efforts to eavesdrop on journalists and board members. For the moment, however, it appears that all the tough talk, as is so often the case in Washington, will remain just talk. This year states have passed laws of varying strength banning the practice - California recently became the 15th one, although the bill...