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...fielded questions about property taxes in Cambridge’s increasingly tight housing market, government spending on social programs, and the potential closure of community centers. Citing difficulties imposed by existing state law, incumbent candidates pointed to their efforts at easing the blow of property taxes—a main source of city revenue—such as reexamining property assessment methods or working with the state legislature. Councilor Timothy Toomey, Jr. and Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who is one of the nine council members, each suggested that additional funds from Harvard could help ease the burden on overtaxed residents.estion...
Unfortunately for the future of the EPC’s proposals, professors in many science concentrations are already up in arms about the recommendation to reduce requirements. As science concentrations seem to be the main target for these recommendations (along with honors tracks), this doesn’t bode well. Clearly, the success of the EPC’s proposal to cap requirements—the only one of its recommendations we support—will hinge on the successful implementation of an exemption procedure. For future drafts, the EPC should flesh out this procedure with an eye towards placating...
...play’s title is a testament both to the main character’s occupation as a professional mourner, or “keener,” and to the grief she feels over the climactic events of the play, which linger enigmatically in the background of her entire monologue but are only made clear in the last third. It is finally revealed that a paramilitary group has slaughtered a group of men in the women’s home village. Upon discovering that her son was involved in the plot, the woman must wrestle with her profound...
...sense that we’ll be affected by it, so it’s hard to motivate around that,” says Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “It hasn’t been our main focus because most Harvard students are more focused on national issues, mostly because most people aren’t from the Cambridge area...
...LoHoCo has markedly improved Lowell House life, and I am now so excited to do the same for the Class of 2006’s final year in Cambridge.” Some newly elected House Reps cited a dedication to maintaining friendships as their main incentive for entering the election. “Part of my interest was derived in a sense of deep devotion for the friendships I’ve made here in Currier House,” said Currier Representative James S. Guseh ’06. “I thought that being a House...