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...ultimately, rather empty Olympics - because of visa restrictions that kept out many tourists along with potential demonstrators - you can bet that Shanghai will give a warmer welcome to the world. After all, it was the influx of foreigners starting in the mid-19th century that turned a Chinese fishing town into the international hub of hedonism. And that's a status Shanghai isn't going to surrender to China's dowdier national capital without a fight...
...question of how I would cobble the various disciplines together. 8. FM: “Aftertaste,” your senior thesis, has been screened at film festivals around the world. What inspired you to write a documentary about post-Apartheid farming in South Africa? CD: Near Cape Town there are a lot of wine farms. During my senior year there were a lot of farmers starting “empowerment projects.” Basically this meant that for the first time the workers could own parts of the vineyard and make profits from their wine being sold...
...Ernst & Young to evaluate the hospital system’s overall structure and present proposals by the end of December. Keefe said that the Health Alliance—which owns three hospitals and 21 clinics based in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston—will be holding a series of Town Hall-style meetings throughout the coming months to receive input from those with a stake in its future ranging from employees to community leaders...
...their preference form. A few parents advocated a return to the neighborhood schools system. Some were not convinced of the underlying value of a socially engineered school system. “We actually had less choice in Cambridge with a controlled choice program than we would in a town without it,” said Bill Hees, a parent who also said he worried that controlled choice was prioritizing socioeconomic diversity over an appropriate education for all students. School committee member Patricia M. Nolan ‘80 said the board would definitely keep parents’ suggestions in mind...
Track, Willow, Trig, Bristol, Piper. Meet the Palin brood! Apparently liberal Hollywood celebrities are not the only ones who like to give their children offbeat names (in order: a thing you run on, an 80's George Lucas film, a field of mathematics, a town in Connecticut, and a type of plane...