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After listening to over an hour and a half of public comment, the Cambridge City Council passed two labor-related policy orders??one regulating the employment of housekeepers at local hotels and another requesting a cease in labor-related cuts at MIT and Harvard—at its meeting last night...
...Gain said. MetroPed owner Wenzday Jane said that from a customer’s vantage point, the delivery process remains exactly the same as using a traditional service. Every afternoon, a MetroPed “driver” stops at Harvard Book Store to pick up the orders??packed in repurposed shipping materials—and brings them to patrons. Jane said that the three-wheeled vehicles have a capacity of 650 pounds and are equipped with power assist to avoid getting stuck in snow banks. “We ride in all weather...
...countryside—the color of the fields and the voice of a nightingale.Besides their immediate relevance and their showcasing of some of Wolff’s most gorgeous imagery to date—the rain falling outside of the pancake house in “Awaiting Orders?? is literally cathartic—these military stories are spectacular because they access the consequences of military involvement through personal relationships. War becomes diffused through a soldier’s attraction to a woman, a father remembering his son’s face. This familiarity is what makes...
...Matt Scherrer, a co-founder of the site, said that Beyond Orders?? humanitarian focus fills a gap in the U.S. military’s presence in Iraq...
...crime after agreeing to a plea bargain. His surprising sentence includes nine months in prison, a one-year prohibition against speaking to the press, and an agreement not to press charges against U.S. government. Officials at Guantánamo have faced increasing pressure—and Supreme Court orders??to try the individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government’s lack of transparency and its failure to adhere to reasonable standards of justice. The prisoners detained at Guantánamo are, according to the Bush administration, among...