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...should be talking about regional traffic and how to keep it from impacting local roads,” said task force chairman Ray Mellone. State Representative Michael J. Moran said the evening’s presentations missed the point. “I’ve never heard huge complaints about public transportation on the roadways,” he said, responding to a suggestion by city officials that Allston streets be widened to include a bus lane. “I have, however, heard about plenty of issues with congestion caused by commuters passing through Allston...
...Yard, the houses, and the dining halls,“ he said. John D. Sedlacek ’12, who is taking “Justice,” agreed with Sandel’s assessment and praised the large enrollment. “The class is like a huge forum,“ he said. “It’s great to learn from the 900 people around you.” But not everyone is enthusiastic about big classes. Government 20; “Introduction to Comparative Politics,” which had already doubled...
...sober French reaction marks how the nation has evolved towards a freer market system under European Union rules, even as it struggles to preserve parts of its vaunted welfare state. Over the past decade, millions of French citizens became first-time shareholders following a huge wave of privatizations, the bulk of them carried out in the late 1990s by a Socialist-led government. Meanwhile, once-modest executive compensation - long cited as proof of France's more egalitarian approach - has skyrocketed in recent years; in 2007 alone, pay for French top executives soared by an estimated 58%, according to the French...
...Bailey said that the state underestimated the popularity of the program “by a huge amount,” and that Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 is trying to close the gap between how much hospitals spend and how much the state reimburses. As one of the 10 largest health systems in the state, the Health Alliance currently receives over 700,000 patient visits a year—and that number is expected to increase in coming years. Representatives at the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services were...
...plan, but much of its scrutiny on Capitol Hill is, in fact, Congress doing what Congress does, albeit on a massive, once-in-a-lifetime scale. On any given day on the Hill well-heeled lobbyists graft slivers of language onto obscure bills, language that ends up being worth huge amounts to their clients. This week the U.S. financial system is going to be reordered on a scale unseen since F.D.R., and everyone has an interest in that, sometimes to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. In the massive bazaar of legislative trading that is the U.S. Congress...