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Bergman recommended shortening the time span for required residency to three months, making it harder for outsiders to take city jobs and move into the city, while giving a greater advantage to job-seekers who already live here. Neil Rohr, a resident and Cambridge Rainbow organizer, also had doubts about making people move to Cambridge after a year. "That's not hiring Cambridge people, that's hiring people and making them Cambridge residents," he said...
WASHINGTON--No, Bill Clinton's astoundingly poor approval rating won't make any difference in 1996. Clinton's popularity can't go anywhere but up, and an American attention span honed on USA Today won't remember the leaner days...
Schama's interests span a wide range of historic, geographic and thematic areas of study, students and professors say. "There are few historians who move intellectually over as many subjects and parts of the world as Professor Schama has been able to do," says Professor of History James Hankins...
...appreciate the essential human self that transcends genders. She just blows away the cobwebs of mystique about masculinity and femininity. When I first read the book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span -- it's a wonderful device for looking at the melancholy of mortality. I was a child growing up under the shadow of a possible nuclear holocaust; now I see young people growing up under the shadow of aids. We have a bittersweet feeling of living in the moment, knowing that shortly...
...Guggenheim Museum in New York City, curated by Carmen Gimenez, with excellent catalog essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. "Picasso and the Age of Iron" involves three European artists -- Alberto Giacometti, Gonzalez and Picasso -- and two American ones, David Smith and Alexander Calder. Its time span is from 1928, when Picasso made an open frame of iron rods with a pinhead and two tiny startled hands and called it Figure, to Smith's maturity in the early 1960s. But its core...