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...landlord had sold his house, leaving the man in the hands of a new landlord who wanted him to leave. Reeves had helped the man find a new home.On the way back, Reeves chats briefly with others he encounters on the street, including Gregory H. Daugherty, who normally hawks Spare Change newspapers outside of Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square.Reeves is known around Cambridge, but he says he isn’t taking any chances with this election. His election standings have varied widely over the past two decades. In 1993 and 1995, he led the council with number...
SOULWAX NITE VERSIONS The Dewaele brothers are the founding members of Soulwax, a competent if unremarkable rock band; in their spare time they also work as 2 Many DJs, spinning out some of the catchiest electro-pop ever to hit a dance floor. Here, 2 Many DJs finally gets around to remixing Soulwax, and never mind the identity politics, it works to great effect. The pedestrian angst of Krack is recast with a tighter rhythm and a jubilant harmony; Miserable Girl is sped up to sound decidedly less like one. The rock soul of their originals remains, but they...
...does Adkins, who graduated from the former Rindge Technical High School, spare the school system from criticism. He advocates that the council reorient the direction of its money toward elementary school classrooms and away from administration...
...panhandler. And, sometimes I kinda feel bad about it. You might not share my strongly-held belief that offering money to beggars is enabling behavior, but most people do vacillate in their responses to the poverty in our midst. Perhaps you sometimes give change and occasionally purchase a Spare Change newspaper because it seems more legitimate. Invariably, though, you turn on the blinders, face forward, and ignore the squalor of the busy city, vaguely mouthing lies like, “I’m all out of change, sorry.”Homelessness has reached a kind of equilibrium, both...
...should always try to be honest about your feelings about people, particularly when it comes to relationships and love. In these matters, white lies—even if intended to spare feelings—can be very detrimental. If you went out for drinks on Saturday night with your ex-girlfriend and you don’t want to worry your girlfriend over something that wasn’t a big deal to you, I suppose you could resort to a white lie. But your relationship should be based on trust to begin with, so a much better choice would...