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...racial justice on the cheap. The only real long-term answer to inequality is to provide a better educational system for the poor, and I mean really better: new facilities, longer school days and school years, the best college-prep classes (to lure scholars from the whiter parts of town), and significant salary bonuses for teachers who choose the toughest neighborhoods, for starters. This would require nothing less than a revolution in public education. We would have to stop funding public schools with local property taxes. The states should finance the system, spending equal amounts on all students. Better schools...
With the forecast calling for lows in the 20s and No. 3 New Hampshire (UNH) in town, the No. 4 Harvard women’s hockey team will have its hands full staying warm. The Crimson, which had an eight-game winning streak snapped on Tuesday, pushes further into a tough December schedule with a game against the Wildcats (14-2-1, 6-1-0 Hockey East) tonight at Bright Hockey Center. Harvard (11-2-0, 9-1-0 ECAC) will then wrap up its series of five non-conference games versus Providence...
...danger, according to one local official. A memorial in nearby Woburn commemorating the life of the war hero may be downsized due to road expansion. “So much for the thanks of a grateful nation,” said David W. Edmonds, member of the Woburn Town Planning Board and the primary force behind the fight for the memorial’s preservation. Born in Woburn in 1745, Baldwin commanded the town’s militia at the first battle of the Revolution. Among his many other accomplishments, Baldwin was responsible for the development of the Baldwin apple?...
...hottest ticket in town last Friday was for “A Conversation with Stephen Colbert” at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. Across campus, a different kind of conversation was taking place. Television and radio talk-show host Tavis Smiley spoke about the state of black America before an older, mostly African American audience in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School...
...Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, the farm at the center of this first lawsuit, became the largest wind farm in the world in October with 421 wind towers spread over 47,000 acres of scrubby ranchland 20 miles southwest of Abilene. Once a rowdy frontier cattle town, Abilene now touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner...