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...starry-eyed idealism. This semester, we’ll do the reading. This semester, we’ll get something out of our classes. This semester, it will be different. I, for one, relish this attitude in myself and in my classmates. As long as the late-summer days stay warm and dorm-room decoration remains our biggest concern, there’s a real sense of possibility. But then reality catches up with...
...perhaps most notably, the University announced only a few weeks into the summer a series of long-anticipated layoffs, cutting 275 jobs and offering reduced or changed work hours for roughly 40 others. Half the positions were professional or administrative jobs, and the rest were clerical and technical jobs...
Find out what else you’ve missed in rainy Cambridge over the summer after the jump...
...night was typical of summer backyard get-togethers on the east side of Baltimore. A DJ was spinning favorite tunes. The barbecue grill was fired up. People laughed, children played. The atmosphere at the picnic, which was organized to honor two men who were killed on the streets a year before, was good...
...about 79,000 acres (about 32,000 hectares), or 22% of the country's entire opium crop. Afghanistan's output usually accounts for more than 90% of the world's heroin. The price that Afghan farmers get for their opium has also crashed, dropping by a third since last summer, from about $30 a pound ($70 per kilogram) to about $20 a pound ($48 a kilogram). (Read "Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium...