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...head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists are more than ready for less cerebral diversion. And in Siem Reap these days, there are plenty of other delights to sample...
...city manager, Robert W. Healy, and Cambridge Police Department’s commissioner, Ronnie Watson, told the council that the vast majority of the grant would pay police officers overtime for extra foot patrols. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker objected, however, saying that increasing police presence would not effectively reduce crime in Cambridge...
...professional UC. After a year dominated by structural reform and internal debate, the UC needs to refocus its efforts on delivering results for the students of Harvard College. Hadfield and Goldenberg’s agenda will do just that.Unlike their rivals, Hadfield and Goldenberg see that the UC has vast untapped potential for independent action. They will create a UC that, instead of merely pressuring the administration, will take the initiative to provide student services. For instance, Hadfield and Goldenberg’s CrimsonReading.com bypassed the administration and accomplished in one week what years of traditional advocacy failed...
...However, changes and compromises need to be made. Although students and police might never agree on noise, alcohol, and public decency laws, a middle ground can be found, so that a Lion King-like “Circle of Life” equilibrium can be reached. And in the vast Serengeti of the Charles River, the lions and water-buffalo can once again be at peace?...
...years after Brown v. Board of Education decreed an end to separate but equal schools, residential segregation persists, and with it a reluctance among many districts to switch to a neighborhood school system. Seattle and Jefferson County both allow parents to apply for their choice of school, and the vast majority of parents in these districts get what they want. But some don't. And since skin color is one of several factors - including which school the child's siblings attend and how close the family lives to a particular school - that determine how students are deployed across these districts...