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Superintendent Bobbie D'Alessandro's has said she will attempt to find "creative" ways to increase the school's funding. This is a good first step, but it is unlikely that she will be able to raise the entire $450,000. Instead, the City of Cambridge should try to find some way to make up the difference. Although it is now too late to incorporate the money into the school budget, this should not prevent City Manager Robert W. Healy from considering reallocating funding. A great deal of money has already been committed to the restructuring effort; it would...
...seems that quite a bit of work and effort went into the research for this article, and it is unfortunate that the presentation of information failed in its attempt to encourage such a "discussion." However, the article does bring up the important issues of the role of evangelical Christian groups on campus, the ways in which evangelical Christians reconcile their faith with life at a secular learning institution, and how others perceive evangelical Christians and the groups to which they belong...
...easier for Internet parodists to produce material similar to the original than, say, those working in print or broadcast media. Then there is the question of the domain name, or URL. Although the Bush camp preemptively bought dozens of domain names, including georgebush.com, over a year ago in an attempt to stave off such parodies, they were unable to cover all the bases. And thus on the unofficial site in question, it takes quite a while for the reader to realize that not all is what it appears to be. In the non-Internet world, on the other hand...
...Misanthropic Mr. Chu" projects an image of Chinese males as socially awkward, people-hating math nerds. So what? At Harvard, we pride ourselves on being reasonable individuals who can surely tell the difference between a (supposedly humorous) comic strip character and a calculated attempt to viciously stereotype races as a whole. Surely reasonable readers know that "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu" is only about one negative character and does not reflect all of the different facets of the Asian-American community...
...grounded performance). But he is determined that his numerous progeny embrace tradition--especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens, one of his sons is bolting an arranged marriage, bringing shame on George, who did not happen to notice that the boy was gay. George's attempt to marry two more of his kids to a pair of plug-ugly sisters comes to similar grief...