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Last Wednesday night, while speaking to students at the Kennedy School, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) praised Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) for discouraging Democrats from attempting to pass bills when the party temporarily holds a Senate majority between Jan. 3, when the new congress takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship...
...survived" foster care, but said nothing about those who were nurtured by it. The acts you described are indeed terrible, but they would be happening at an even more alarming rate if foster care did not exist. Solutions are what's needed, not horror stories. GWYNETH JONES Wenham, Mass...
...take place in foster homes, but many more occur in the child's own family. The whole system needs a major overhaul. And while the issue is debated, children are growing up feeling unwanted and unloved. Foster care is not the answer. Adoption is. LINDA L. GENTILE East Longmeadow, Mass...
From her early days playing at open-mike nights in Northhampton, Mass., Dar Williams has stood out among folk singers. Her intelligent and deeply personal lyrics have sparkled against her exquisite voice and her acoustic guitar. She has explored relationships with people and with the world over her first three albums. Now, with her latest tour and disc (The Green World), Dar has taken herself one step further: into the realm of the folk-pop crossover...
...arts; often a laugh quickly escalates into affliction or a misfortune is made light by a comic touch. The life of a stand-up comedian hangs between these two entangled polarities. With his video in progress, Kyle Gilman '02, a visual and environmental studies concentrator from Wendell, Mass., explores this tightrope in the life of a local Boston comic as he navigates through the harsh and difficult circuit of the comedy world. When we think of comedians, we usually think of the lucky ones on sitcoms or HBO specials. But Kyle shows the world of the unknown laughmakers, with their...