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...Smith ’09 says, “I wouldn’t go out of my way” to separate trash from recyclables. “It is more convenient to put everything is a big black trash bag,” Smith adds. Likewise, Patrick M. McKee ’07 isn’t an anti-environmentalist, but isn’t overly conscientious. “I was brought up to do some things, like turn off the lights, but I don’t turn off my computer at night, and my room...
...high school before reaching this milestone—a sad effect of the state’s policy to mandate education only until age 16. At least 15 states, however, have adopted a minimum dropout age of 18, netting diplomas for a vastly larger population. Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently proposed such an increase here, and we join him in his call for a better education for all Bay State teens. Although many upper high-school courses may not be relevant to a student’s plans in the here-and-now, they still...
...Patrick Baur ’07, who lives on the second floor of New Quincy, said he was getting ready to go to bed when he heard a commotion in the stairwell...
...Negotiations resumed while votes were still being counted and will continue through the pilgrimage of Irish politicians to Washington for St Patrick's Day (March 17). Whether the deadline works or not, senior members of both Sinn Fein and the DUP believe a deal in inevitable. The strange thing is that's because the voters have now cast polarised politics in concrete. The 1998 Good Friday Accord was built around moderate parties, but Paisley and Adams have now eclipsed them - in practical terms, there's no one else to work with. That might not be a great foundation...
...when the verdict against Libby came down, it was also a rebuke to that hermetic power-sharing arrangement at the top of the White House. The legal outcome was never in doubt. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had been massing evidence of perjury for months and then unveiled it piece by piece until even the defendant chose not to testify in his own defense. Libby's highly touted defense lawyers, meanwhile, seemed weak and scattered. Their promise to reveal how the White House had left Libby to be the fall guy for higher-ups was introduced and then abandoned...