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...This past winter, the marked rise of youth violence in Boston caught the attention of Harvard’s Black Students Association (BSA), who decided to take action following shootings in Dorchester and Roxbury. First via letter—and then by meeting with Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 himself—student leaders from the BSA facilitated the development of a comprehensive plan to curb youth violence in the state. Besides the potential tangible effect of lowering rates of youth violence, the most encouraging aspect of this dialogue was the students’ embracing a cause...
...that created the institution should simply be repealed. Most members of France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) agree, and have called for the statue to be struck from the books to give companies freedom to work longer hours at lower cost. Earlier in May, UMP president Patrick Devedjian expressed the longing of virtually all French conservatives by "forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour week". But in the face of ferocious reaction by labor leaders to that appeal and the applause it drew from UMP members, other conservatives were forced to quash the very suggestion...
...connected with the iconic working woman of their time, as Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards had been a generation before. (And, unquestionably, the show gave its fans a smart laugh or two.) So naturally they're primed for the SATC movie, which was written and directed by Michael Patrick King, an executive producer of the show. For them, it's what Grand Theft Auto IV is to their sons, and a Hannah Montana concert to their daughters - a gotta-have cultural event...
...enough to have been there to see her and talk to her before she became unconscious. Perhaps us children being there with her before she died gave us some peace. But I and my sisters and brothers still miss our Mum, and my eldest sister is 72 years old! Patrick Kwai-sum Poon, BURTON-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND...
...Patrick had announced the $1 billion plan at the 2007 BIO International Convention, which was held in Boston last...