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Bostonians may “love that dirty water,” but the Charles River may be running a little clearer by 2013. The river will see a drastic decrease in contamination—specifically, “over a 99 percent reduction in combined sewage overflow,” the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), Frederick A. Laskey, said yesterday. Combined sewage overflow (CSO) refers to the contamination that enters the river through pipes containing both storm water and sewage spillover. The move, slated for completion by 2013, could “perhaps make...
...with fringe friends pushing in for last spots in hot groups,” a verse of a rap written by Grant M. Damon ’09 reads. “I thought you had just committed to the Lost Crew, when awesome is to suck as the River is to Quad, fool.”As for a solution to making the system less stressful, Diep N. Vo ’09 suggested expanding blocking group size. Neighborhood blocking did not address the fact that “your friends [may] have different friends...
Most people don’t get St. Patrick’s Day. Sure, they might have a vague idea about parades or corned beef and cabbage, and they all know about green beer. But even in Boston and New York, where Irish blood flows like a river and massive parades mark the 17th of March, most people just don’t get it. They don’t know what it’s about, they don’t know why it’s important, and they certainly don’t know why we Irish...
...moments of humor and subtlety. In one of the opening scenes, V draws attention to the “paradox of asking a masked man who he is.” The repeated use of the jazz standard, “Cry Me a River,” represented an understated metaphor for political subversion that resonated throughout the film as V struggles towards his goal of liberating the English public...
...grew up in Bark River, a town of 1,000 people, about twenty minutes away from Bissell’s Escanaba, a city with about 15,000 residents...