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...Patrick ’78 implemented the budget cuts on Oct. 15, as a response to an estimated state budget deficit of $1.4 billion. The deficit has been caused by the current economic slowdown and the corresponding decline expected in state revenue, according to Patrick’s press statement. Among the affected Cambridge initiatives are the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Center for Families, and the North Cambridge Crime Task Force. CHA, a Harvard-affiliated public hospital system that operates in more than 20 locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area, had its funding cut by $55 million. The Alliance...
...According to the vast majority of polls, today Barack Obama will be elected the 44th president of the United States. He will also become, as the press will surely note, the first black president of our country...
...acknowledge that, it's not that hard to screen it out. But you've got to acknowledge it. If you're an intelligent person with an interest in this stuff, you're going to have your views and opinions. And it doesn't mean you're trying to press them through your work. That's not how bias works. Bias is insidious; it works its way into your attitude...
...networks have taken CIA-style precautions to insure that Election Day runs smoothly. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, three representatives from each of the six news organizations in the business of calling presidential elections - CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press - quarantine themselves at an undisclosed location to start poring over exit poll data supplied by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. "I can't tell you any more than that it's in the state of New York," Gawiser says of the meeting place. (Other execs confirmed that the reps indeed meet in New York City.) BlackBerrys...
...Dalai Lama said on Sunday that he does not know what will come of the meetings. Now 73, he said he is looking forward to complete retirement. "My retirement is also my human right," he said, laughing during Monday's press conference in Tokyo. "Since 16 years old, I carried this responsibility. There should be a limit." And though his negotiating life may be coming to an end, as far as his being Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama says he will remain committed until death...