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...According to The Times of London, "The government is pressing ahead with plans to sell a string of state-owned organizations as part of a privatization drive to add ?35 billion to the dwindling public purse." Among the treasures being sold are the Royal Mint and the national mapping agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the U.S. Sell Assets As the British Government Did? | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Readers looking for a link between spirituality and health might also take a look at Alcoholics Anonymous. The organization has accumulated about 2 million members since 1935, who have, among other actions, taken the step and "come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." Gary K., St. Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Christopher M. Mason, a Cambridge GLBT commissioner who organizes Phelps-a-thon fundraisers—named after WBC leader Fred Phelps—to raise money for every minute that the WBC is holding a protest, said that the WBC encourages unprecedented unity among its opponents...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Unifies To Protest Westboro Church | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...June 30. According to Mount, if a substantial number of employees accept the package, then the University-mandated budget cuts will be less drastic for offices within Harvard, such as OCS. Currently, six OCS staffers would be devoted to counseling undergraduate students on an individual basis in July, among other duties. These employees—and additional OCS staffers—may be expected to take extended unpaid vacations in July, while OCS is in “sleep mode,” according to Mount. In past years, OCS employees have tended to take their vacations during July...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: OCS May Cut July Advising | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...idea that the word marriage is so strong that denying it to gay couples violates the most sacred right enshrined in the state constitution: the right for all people to be treated with dignity and fairness. Just 10 months later, gay couples - whether or not they are among the 18,000 who married in the state before Prop 8 stopped the ceremonies - are loath to lose a word for which so many fought so hard and so long to have apply to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage? | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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