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...America. For Dodson and her subjects, American corporations are amoral entities that continue to build their wealth on the backs of the nation's low-income workers. Helping the less fortunate in this context becomes a form of civil and corporate disobedience, and Dodson, a professor of sociology at Boston College, isn't lacking in examples. There's the supervisors who tweak time cards so that employees can take care of their kids, the school nurse who keeps cots in her office so that students in difficult family situations can catch a few hours' sleep, and the doctor who flouts...
Chan said that his host family also helped introduce him to various areas of Boston during his freshman year and hosted him for Thanksgiving break during his sophomore year. He said that his host family members are among the people in Boston that he feels the closest...
Additionally, Harvard’s Director of Community Relations for Boston Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 announced at the beginning of the meeting that Harvard will ensure that at least 10 units of market-priced housing will be built on the Brookline Machine site, which was a major point of contention at the previous community meeting. According to a statement released by Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications Christine M. Heenan, the plans for the Brookline site were finalized on Wednesday night at a meeting between President Drew G. Faust and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will hold an open meeting next Thursday, during which they will review any revisions to the Charlesview design and vote on whether or not to give the Charlesview Board a permit to begin construction...
...Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum will pay a $675,000 fine to the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally sharing music online unless a court rules to reduce the fine in a subsequent trial...