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...efforts to work with the community, citing the Charlesview relocation project—an ongoing subject of negotiations between Harvard and the community since 2003—as evidence of the University’s disinterest in building community relations. “It’s a huge project and Harvard’s bending over backwards to refuse to have any involvement in planning it,” Mattison said. “Until we see Harvard cooperating on a project like that with the neighborhood, it’s hard to feel like there?...
...these people in one room?” Lucky for us, he decided to find out, enlisting a group of Internet celebrities to come to Cambridge for panels and discussions on Internet pop culture. Close to 500 people are expected to attend the conference, as well as the huge after party. Attracting all this talent was easier than Hwang expected. “In certain Internet circles, I think we’re bigger than Jesus,” he says. Ryan North, author of the popular Dinosaur Comics, knew instantly that he had to attend...
...federal government adopts a similar universal mandate, the situation in Massachusetts will have served as an informative preview of what is to come. In the United States, 47 million people currently lack health insurance, and their entrance into the world of the insured will place a huge burden on already overwhelmed primary care physicians. But even ignoring the entrance of uninsured patients into the health care system, the American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that the country will need 40,000 more family physicians by 2020 due to the aging population, a 40 percent increase over today?...
...among his supporters in the region. Everyone now realizes he is a cheat. How can he be an effective leader in those circumstances? Still, it's very difficult to fight dictatorship with democratic means. We always ask ourselves how we can do that. We're always conscious of the huge task we've set ourselves. But we try to instill democratic values in our activists and workers, particularly the younger ones who would like to confront Mugabe with extreme measures. We have managed to restrain them. But it's not easy. We're taking on the whole edifice, a dictatorship...
...venue of the closing ceremony for the run was also changed. San Francisco has some experience with dealing with Beijing's foes: the Chinese consulate in the city often sees protests by North Korean refugees and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. But the scale of Wednesday's events is huge: Tibetan activists hung a banner from the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, and thousands attended a vigil on the eve of the flame's arrival. A slew of other activists are congregating around the issue, from advocates for Burmese democracy (China backs the country's junta) to nudists who want...