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The Web site of the Massachusetts Animal Interest Coalition (MAIC), a group established to oppose the passage of ballot Question 3—which would ban gambling on dog races across the state —presents a number of arguments against the initiative. It reminds readers of the thousand...
In its first ground-up construction project since 1973, Lesley University has one goal: to successfully integrate the new campus extension into Cambridge’s Agassiz neighborhood.One of many Boston area colleges expanding its campus, Lesley’s experience in Agassiz, an affluent neighborhood just north of Harvard...
One can easily understand why being mayor of New York City might be a difficult job to give up. Michael Bloomberg is having a particularly difficult time dealing with his upcoming separation from mayoral power. For one thing, he has installed enormous countdown timers in several government offices that measure...
All this should, theoretically, lay the groundwork for more black Democrats to follow Obama's lead in the future. But some cautious observers worry that an Obama loss would set a catastrophic precedent. The message will be, says Walters, the Maryland professor, "If you can't elect a black person...
Will the European plans work? There is one hopeful precedent, in Sweden, which in the early 1990s solved its own banking crisis by guaranteeing deposits, injecting huge amounts of liquidity into the banking system via the central bank, and forcing banks to write down the value of their assets very...