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...Patrick ’78 implemented the budget cuts on Oct. 15, as a response to an estimated state budget deficit of $1.4 billion. The deficit has been caused by the current economic slowdown and the corresponding decline expected in state revenue, according to Patrick’s press statement. Among the affected Cambridge initiatives are the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Center for Families, and the North Cambridge Crime Task Force. CHA, a Harvard-affiliated public hospital system that operates in more than 20 locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area, had its funding cut by $55 million. The Alliance...
...Perhaps the most urgent issue, however, is Obama’s unwavering policy to negotiate without preconditions with Iran, a country headed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has asserted that wiping Israel off the map is “a very wise statement.” Although Silverman calls Obama’s foreign policy “more stabilizing” for Israel, this opinion fails to convey the magnitude of what is at stake. National Review columnist Anne Bayefsky best articulates this viewpoint, writing that “since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close...
...statement released this afternoon by Obama and Soetoro-Ng said, "She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring. Our debt to her is beyond measure...
...Republicans have no business winning this election,” says Colin J. Motley ’10. An unlikely statement, perhaps, considering that he is president of the Harvard Republican Club and currently on his way to New Hampshire to campaign for John McCain. But on this day, Motley’s words ring especially true: his candidate is trailing in nearly every national poll, the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been involved in a number of embarrassing gaffes, and Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, recently announced his endorsement of McCain?...
...conservative. “These findings suggest that the news media is at a crossroads in shaping their political coverage and winning viewers’ trust,” Seth A. Rosenthal, the study’s leader author and a fellow at the Kennedy School, said in a statement. “At a time when Americans are demanding better leaders, their mistrust of the media’s coverage of the presidential campaign is troubling.” The study also cited that 62 percent of the 997 American citizens surveyed said that they were skeptical of media...