Word: recently
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...recent years, town-gown relations have been characterized by tension and strain. From the University's land dealings in Allston to its plans for the new Knafel Center, many Cantabrigians have comes to see Harvard as an insensitive Goliath, acting without regard for local interests. The University's decision to do something to ameliorate the dearth of low-income housing-one of the local community's most pressing problems-should be well received...
...course, we are not so naive as to believe that this recent donation represents a sudden outbreak of altruism in the ranks of the Administration. The loans and grants may be seen as a public relations ploy. Harvard must deal with the local community whether it wishes to or not, and a hostile community--as has been the case lately--makes the job of the University all the more difficult. Still, the recent donations also represent a genuine desire on the part of administrators to maintain the well-being of Boston and Cambridge...
Parents have complained that the recent rave over the Potter books is nothing more than an evil curse, a sort of black magic that has cast its spell over fourth-graders everywhere. They argue that Rowling is promoting witchery (a bonafide religion in the United States) over good old-fashioned Christianity. You see, Harry Potter is no ordinary boy. He is a wizard-in-training, and in Rowling's books, there is a whole magic world out there which he inhabits. Except, of course, when he has to go home for the holidays...
...first-year jobs in the federal government and a Boston law firm earned about the same amount--about $60,000, adjusted for inflation, after taxes and loans, according to a recent Boston Globe article...
Sadly, all this talk is just that--talk. It is hype created by politicians for the benefit of next year's presidential election. While they may talk about increasing the funding for public education or devoting all of the budget surplus to social security, their actions, like the recent decision to revoke the Glass-Steagall Act, demonstrate that their biggest interest is increasing our country's wealth, or more specifically, the wealth of the nation's top 10 percent...