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...Furthermore, casinos in nearby Connecticut already drain huge amounts of gambling money from Massachusetts pockets. Patrick’s plan would keep that money within the commonwealth, filling the State House coffers with up to $400 million per year. The proposal would thus provide ample revenue for plugging the state??s holes—beginning with the high property tax. Patrick ran for governor on a platform of reducing this squeeze on homeowners, and we are heartened to see a concrete plan to accomplish that promise. As Patrick has pointed out, the funds can also go toward fixing...
...short, poignant pauses. Fifty years ago last month, Carlotta W. LaNier and eight fellow students became the first blacks to integrated into Central High—a previously all-white Arkansas school—under the order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and over the fierce objections of the state??s governor. Each day they passed a gauntlet of violent parents and students, and the nine students became symbols of the civil rights movement. Last night, LaNier and her fellow classmates guests of honor spoke before a crowd of more than 300 that included Gov. Deval L. Patrick...
...courage and philosophical integrity befitting a prestigious institution.” The New York Times, no doubt comprised of many graduates from both amateur periodicals, similarly gushed: They “could imagine no better way to give hope to opponents of Iran’s repressive state?? than to honor the country’s leader with a forum at an Ivy League university—albeit a second-rate...
...ultimately failed, but only because of a technicality: the state??s Supreme Judicial Court refused to let MIT sell its Back Bay land to fund the merger...
...women on the Harvard team to win her state??s amateur championship...