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...immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad??Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become the subject of his book. “You can be imprisoned in China for simply feeding...
...involves the entire audience in a conversation and an activity. Furthermore, he transforms each line of Dr. Seuss’s work into a varied, expressive musical phrase. By adding his own personal touches, like an adaptation of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad?? preceding the lines of “A train, a train, a train, a train! Could you, would you on a train?”—Kapilow transforms Dr. Seuss’s classic tale. In addition to adding variety, the creative arrangement and interplay...
Consequently, the proposed move by the MBTA is illogical, even if purely for administrative reasons. The MBTA—the government agency that operates the Boston area mass transit system, including the subway, the trolleys, the buses and the commuter railroad??is a perennial money-loser. Fares are deliberately set below the break-even point in order to keep public transportation affordable for Boston’s poorest citizens; state tax revenues help keep the agency afloat. And with the state government facing a huge budget crisis, and the MBTA contemplating another fare hike, it is sheer folly...
...federal and state statutes protect the railroad??s right of the way to the land, just as they do throughout the Commonwealth. Get out any history book, and it will tell you that,” Amorello said. “Even 50 years from now, when they own the land, Harvard will still have to go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts if they want to change these easements...
...said the railroad??s indefinite presence on the new land was also a large consideration in deciding whether to place...
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