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...citing a lack of available funds. State transportation funds, however, are in anything but short supply. The Romney administration is only choosing to divert them to less worthy projects. Progress is proceeding rapidly on the $500 million Greenbush commuter rail line, which will serve Boston’s South Shore, home to some of the Commonwealth’s most affluent communities. The Somerville/Medford Green Line extension, by contrast, is estimated to cost $559 million, virtually the same as the Greenbush line. The state is also rushing to complete the $60 million Sagamore Flyover project, which will ease the commute...
...tank, reckons that, in Sri Lankan terms, both sides are showing restraint-neither has launched all-out assaults. "The government knows the only way to stop the L.T.T.E. from killing more soldiers is to meet them at the negotiating table," says Perera. The Tigers, he adds, are keen to shore up their battered reputation with the international community, which can stymie fund raising among the Tamil diaspora and stop rebel sympathizers from traveling. Last Friday government spokesman Rambukwella told TIME that Norway, which has been acting as mediator, has scheduled fresh talks between Colombo and the L.T.T.E. in Geneva...
...Brown by 22 shots. But despite the end of the season, the tournament was important as the team looks ahead to next year. “It was about leaving a good taste in our mouth as we head to the summer,” Hegge said. Freshman Michael Shore led the way, bringing in totals of 79 and 73 to place in a tie for fourth, four shots behind winner Austin Luher of Army. Senior D.J. Hynes closed out his career with rounds of 79 and 75, placing Harvard’s leader seventh. “It?...
...Chicago, there are lots of sour faces as passengers step off the South Shore Line's cramped 7:35 into Chicago's Randolph Street station from nearby Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind. The 90-minute trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...Davidson, N.C. He did graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago. He was born June 1, 1955. He and his wife, Jill, married in 1987, have three children and lots of pets. They live in Fairfax County and have a weekend house on the Eastern Shore...