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...predictions that Question One will cause the Bay State to be overrun with underage winos and drunk drivers unconvincing. According to the “Vote No On Question One” website, 15 and 16 year old clerks who work at grocery stores cannot be relied upon to vet buyers’ ages. But radical increases in underage drinking in neighboring states which allow widespread sale of wine in food stores have not materialized. And besides, grocery stores already sell cigarettes successfully; it should be a relatively small shift to adapt existing technology and training to wine sales. Massachusetts...
Director Larry Charles, a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” vet, knows how to work with this style of confrontational comedy (popular on shows now from “Curb” to “The Colbert Report”), milking awkward pauses and misunderstandings for all their comedic gold. The lengths Cohen goes to in the effort to actually offend people are staggering; his Southern dinner party doesn’t end until he orders an African-American hooker sent to the plantation house of his hosts...
...vet nonprofits is by looking for charities with low operating costs. Ask a nonprofit what percentage of the budget covers overhead and how much the CEO takes as salary. But you should be wary of smaller nonprofits that have been around a while and have grown tired or obsolete, says Robert Egger, author of Begging for Change, a book about nonprofits. Egger's advice: look for an organization with some turnover at the board level, a sign that new ideas are welcome. But you should probably avoid an organization with persistent turnover in management, a sign that the charity...
...will continue.”But in March, Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas F. Fowler-Finn announced that the district would be conducting a national search to find Knight’s replacement. The district used a committee composed of parents, teachers, community leaders, and a student representative to vet candidates. The committee issued periodic updates about the search on the district’s website but did not release any specific information about the candidates—such as the number of applicants or their biographical details.Despite its closed nature, the search process did receive some scrutiny from community...
Getting into Harvard is hard, very hard. Yearly the gatekeepers in Byerly Hall vet thousands of applicants on their merits, rejecting many times the number of students that they accept. But getting a scientific paper published in Science or Nature, today’s pre-eminent scientific journals, is oftentimes harder. Science, like much of academia, has its own admissions committee. Though over a million manuscripts are published in journals yearly, many more are submitted and rejected. The gatekeepers of science—peer reviewers who are reputable scientists and well versed in a particular field—advise journal...