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Despite fear that the city’s poor will not have the support or resources to reclaim their lives, some at Harvard see the hurricane’s destruction as an opportunity to start with a blank slate...
...while they wait for their new homes to be built, settlers are to be moved to temporary locations. As we rise again to 250 feet, we fly above some of these "caravillas." They're two- or three-bedroom temporary structures with roofs that are sometimes slate-gray, sometimes red. Laid out in neat cul-de-sacs, the government is putting down turf for the gardens. The government doesn't want the settlers to feel disregarded, like the new immigrants who came from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s, who were initially housed in rotten caravans like those...
...Philippines recover from this crisis? We have been through worse: 14 years of martial law. Everybody has to have the same vision for the country, and that is a better life for Filipinos. Every single day prolongs the agony of the people down there. If we clean up our slate and start anew, I'm very confident we'll be seen in a new light. My idea is that in 2013, 2014, 2015, we can get our house in order and catch up with the competition: Malaysia, Thailand, even Indonesia. It may be pie-in-the-sky right...
...July 29 deadline required candidates to gather at least 50 signatures supporting their bids for two-year terms on the City Council. All nine of the incumbents have been in office since at least 2002, meaning that, if Cambridge voters approve the same slate of candidates yet again, they would be represented by an identical Council through...
Rounding out the slate of challengers is James Condit, a Libertarian; Andre Green, a 24-year-old Republican; Robert Hall, Sr.; Bill Hees, a second Libertarian; Robert La Trémouille, a longtime Cantabrigian who frequently denounces environmental destruction in the city; and Sam Siedel, an urban planner and 2001 graduate of the Design School...