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...that on both the collegiate and citywide level we were being blessed with the perfect sports season.Now, here we are in 2008, and it’s all happening again. After three-year championship droughts for all three teams, the magic of 2004 is creeping back into the Boston area, from Foxboro and Fenway to Harvard Stadium and the Yale Bowl. The Red Sox have already done their part, while the Patriots are working on nothing less than one of the greatest seasons in football history. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that the Crimson emerged victorious in this...
...markers and tape, let’s get this started!” Wearing signs that read “Another ________ Against the War,” a group of 100 people—composed mostly of students from Boston-area colleges and universities, but also spectators who joined in along the way—marched in silence for four miles from Boston Common to Marsh Plaza to protest America’s involvement in the Iraq conflict. Marchers filled in the blank on their signs with everything from the general—“Student?...
Searching for an edge, many regions are applying the concept of clustering with renewed zeal. The idea of focusing a geographic area on a particular industry in order to achieve economies of scale has been kicking around since at least 1890, when the economist Alfred Marshall coined the term "industrial district" to refer to neighborhoods that contained both factories and all their workers. In the 1990s, Harvard's Porter started using the word "cluster" to get at the usefulness of companies in close proximity sharing infrastructure, ideas and employees - like high performance cars in Germany. Some predicted that a globalized...
...three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded in April 1986. Despite high levels of radioactivity in the area, biodiversity is flourishing and species are procreating. For Weisman, these examples show that while humans have irrevocably altered the earth’s ecosystem, the evolution of life will continue. Yesterday’s event was the first in a series of discussion-based talks called Green Conversations that...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals donated $10,000 to the Cambridge Public Schools yesterday, continuing a five-year tradition of providing funds for local students to attend performing arts shows in the Boston area. Hasty Pudding’s donations over the past five years total $60,000 and have been used to subsidize tickets for over 4,000 Cambridge students. The gift was given to the school district at a ceremony yesterday at the Amigos School that featured Hasty Pudding members dressed in drag and the cast of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s production of “Guys...