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...born to young mothers. The causes behind teen pregnancy are endemic and self-perpetuating; they must be confronted as such, not as peripheral elements of a broader trouble. A complex problem demands a complex response. The Globe article notes that the teen birth rate among Massachusetts Hispanics is almost six times greater than among non-Hispanics. This is sure evidence of the deep-seated cultural and economic causes at work here. It is then unsurprising that more than a quarter of the population of Springfield is Hispanic—twice the state average. Lawrence, another host to this increase, features...
...seeking payment of her benefits from June 2006, when Harvard ceased payment, until she recovers from her disability. Before she stopped working, McGahey earned a salary of over $100,000. Under the terms of the University’s employment plan, McGahey began receiving long-term benefits after six months of disability since she was unable to perform her normal job duties. These benefits continued for 18 months. In March 2006, the University wrote to McGahey to inform her that she was no longer eligible to receive benefits under the disability plan after June. Though her current condition prevented...
...There never was an authentic or open policy debate in the six months leading up [to the invasion],” said Harvard Kennedy School professor Stephen M. Walt, an international relations theorist and one of the most prominent opponents of the war at Harvard...
...remember sitting in my American history class in my junior year of high school—so the Iraq war had been happening for six months—and I remember being the only kid in my class who was so against that war and sitting there debating, and I was the only one there being like, ‘Oh my God, this thing is so awful...
...Half the world's population is going to be celebrating something," says Raymond Clothey, Professor Emeritus of Religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "My goodness," says Delton Krueger, owner of www.interfaithcalendar.org, who follows "14 major religions and six others." He counts 20 holidays altogether (including some religious double-dips, like Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) between the 20th (which is also quite crowded) and the 21st. He marvels: "There is no other time in 2008 when there is this kind of concentration...