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Several months ago, my roommate and I decided to start a commune. In a yet-to-be-specified city, we have found the answer to sky-high rents—without salaries we surely couldn’t afford a place—we are living under a bridge wth a small killer dog to protect our laptops...
Sure, there are many reasons for this situation. Sky-high rent forces lots of businesses out, and not every owner wants to stay up late. And when it comes to placing blame, it’s hard not to look at the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC), which imposes most of these restrictions. But while it’s true that the CLC is a major part of the problem, we must also pay attention to the man behind the curtain—the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF...
...didn't say they have criminal records might simply not be reporting it." Translation: Employers without the time or inclination to discern whether job applicants are criminals err on the ?safe? side and assume that all young black applicants are criminals-or at least incompetent. No wonder unemployment is sky-high in urban areas...
...University Hall was once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full Faculty meeting Feb. 7, and ultimately producing his ouster.Will the Summers storm cast its pallor on the College’s sky-high yield rate—the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director of college guidance at Collegiate High School...
Political tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been running high for years but now they?ve gone sky-high. Late Thursday, the government of left-wing President Hugo Chavez announced it would slash the number of flights to and from Venezuela offered by U.S. airlines-significantly trimming flights by American Airlines and banning those by Delta and Continental entirely. The policy goes into effect on March 30th...