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...don’t want to spend anything at all, just skip dinner and head straight for the movie. Pick up your free ticket at the Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center starting tomorrow, Sunday...
...leaders pointed out that the walls had been up for days. In 2004, he claimed, without any support, that an opponent's staffer had beaten his wife and he at a political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket, and would win again with him on it, despite the fact that Bush had been governor of Texas in 1998. Most recently he practically predicted the imminent death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is being treated for pancreatic cancer, though he subsequently apologized. (See the screwups...
...return each year, poses major challenges for government agencies and nonprofit organizations struggling with budget crises. Even without the expected surge of prisoners coming home, their efforts haven't proved particularly successful at stopping the revolving door of recidivism. Until recently, "most people got 50 bucks, a bus ticket and let out the door without any preparation - they land back in their old neighborhoods at four in the morning where there's drugs - so what would we expect in terms of them being successful?" wonders Amy Solomon, a scholar at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research organization. (Read about...
...Jose) resents the unbreakable ties to this home that an unexpected pregnancy (and the ensuing marriage) reinforced, and her ambiguous romantic interest in her cousin Ronald (Kristoffer King) further complicates her emotions. Cousin Alan (Coco Martin) has impregnated his girlfriend, Merly (Mercedes Cabral)—a one-way ticket to the altar and another mouth to feed. And all the while, “service” men gather in the theatre’s lobby and cinema, selling themselves to the gay frequenters for as much as 300 pesos—the equivalent of about six American dollars?...
...Bush-era abstinence and foreign aid programs, zero for a Bush-era reading program plagued by cronyism and mismanagement. The budget is also notable for what it does not include: any reforms of the haphazard ways Congress throws money at infrastructure, agriculture, energy, health care and other big-ticket spending items...