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...people in the receiving towns see things differently. They point to the years of excessive taxes, shuttered businesses and struggling schools they endured because their property-tax bases weren't robust enough to support decent schools. "Was it fair for [rich towns] to have an advantage when somebody else's fundamental rights--in this case, a public education--were being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait...
India needs nuclear weapons like Bill Clinton needs Viagra [ASIA'S CRISIS, May 25]. There are, however, a few other things that India does truly need, like food, water, adequate sanitation and a decent sports bar. The very idea that a nation as poor as India would so desperately want the Bomb is a sign that its national priorities are skewed. Is this how it intends to deal with poverty, overpopulation and disease? PHIL PERRIER Watkinsville...
...time physics engine." Wade out into a pond, for instance, and watch the water ripple gently ahead of you. Bend down and pick up a flower and throw it into the pond, and it drifts away on the surface. Trespasser is truly innovative. Now if only it had some decent explosives...
...absolutely disgusted with Harvard for this appointment," Adams wrote in a letter dated April 15. "Doesn't Harvard stand for anything that is honorable, decent and God-fearing...
Colleagues, friends and family say Rowe's winning personality, his good judgment, his sense of humor (and what one friend calls his "decent" tennis game) have helped him jump from one prestigious job to another...