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...which 30-second video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express...
...government waste in city and town spending.” Yet legislators argue that the initiative will affect the aid the state can give to local communities. “One would find it hard to believe that they would be able to lose 40 percent of revenue stream and not have to reduce state aid to local cities and towns,” said Cambridge Budget Director David J. Kale. State senator Anthony D. Galluccio, a former Cambridge city councillor, expressed similar concerns. “The initiative would have a dramatic impact on local services...
...about 15 staffers, paid and volunteer, hunched over laptops and cradled cell phones in a bare space provisioned with bags of Lays potato chips and Dum Dums. A pair of disposable chopsticks and a Chinese takeout container peeked from a trashcan, testament to someone's late night. A steady stream of supporters trooped through the door, eager for yard signs...
...based on the atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete...
...recent advance in stem cell research is the latest in a stream of developments by Harvard researchers this past year...