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...department, both donated $4,600 to Clinton, while Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz gave $1,000. Though Romney, like Obama, is an alumnus of the Law School, his support ran deeper at his other alma matter, Harvard Business School. The Business School’s Michael E. Porter, the Lawrence university professor, gave $2,300 to Romney. Porter is the co-founder of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge-based consulting firm, while Romney formerly led Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney also received $2,300 from Cizik Professor of Business Administration Clayton M. Christensen, a fellow Mormon...
...largest metropolis had been Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered 10 round-trip flights every week day to Ottawa (and later, to Montreal), taking off and landing at idyllic Toronto Island, just a five-minute ferry ride from the city center. The island's green parks, beaches and petting zoo had long made the island a treasured summer...
...months later, the protests have died down. Some downtown Torontonians have even warmed to their "local" airline, particularly time-stressed business people like lawyer Howard Greenberg, who can see the jets ascend from his office window. "With Porter, I can leave and board the aircraft within 30 minutes," he says. "If I go to Pearson, I have to allocate two hours." He likes the service, too. The terminal features complimentary cappuccinos and, for his laptop, wireless high-speed Internet access...
...than the band’s previous efforts. Especially worthy of note is the title track. The song, which details long-suppressed passions between two Channel Six news reporters, is both clever (“We belong together / Like traffic and weather”) and infectious. Lead guitar Jody Porter keeps things moving along with vigorous, sometimes restless guitar riffs right through to the album’s closer, a slightly twangy ditty about seemingly endless plane flights. On the other hand, lovely, mellow ballads like “Fire in the Canyon?...
Homelessness in Cambridge is “in no way limited to people asking for change on the street,” added Zachary C. Arnold ’10, another student who participated in collecting data. “It’s people living in the Porter Square T station, in underpasses...