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...said State Representative and former Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf. While some cities will make immediate cuts to balance their budgets, others, including Cambirdge, may be able to eke by without such drastic measures, said Cambridge Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy, who said the city should be able to slow down programs rather than make wholesale cuts. “This year, we can probably make up the cuts through efficiencies, delays in hiring, and using reserves,” he said. The city manager is currently looking at this year’s budget to find where the cuts...
...influence, commanding estates and legions of servants. At his death, the household is broken up, the house sold: "Gone, and they the servants would never find another berth like this one, the gravity of the house, the gentleness of the master, the vast damp rooms, the slow lugubrious pace, the order within disorder." That generational shift, the breakdown of the feudal system into something recognizably modern but no less disorderly, gives Mueenuddin his subject...
...originally boycotted the trial, calling the proceedings, which began on Monday afternoon, a "kangaroo court." That allowed prosecutor David Ellis to present his case at a steady clip without any real hitches. Witnesses testified, evidence was presented and the occasional wiretap tape played. Blagojevich's soliloquy did not slow Ellis down. The trial moved swiftly to a conclusion and the unloved governor was sent packing a couple of hours after what turned out to be his valedictory. (See pictures of the remarkable world of Rod Blagojevich...
University spokesman John Longbrake was slow to acknowledge the problem that such “underwater funds” may pose as the current financial crisis brings unprecedented losses to the University’s endowment, saying only that it was “probable that [Harvard] will see underwater [endowment] funds” in the current fiscal climate...
...Brien, who said he has spent most of his life on the streets, recently found a home in Cambridgeport with his partner and pets. But the 55-year-old said slow business has made paying the rent difficult, and now he faces possible eviction from his home...