I continue to think it ironic that Larry Summers, who had earlier attacked those who
support divestment from Israel as anti-Semitic, finds himself unable to hide
behind the “academic freedom” flag. (Not that I agree with divestment nor with Summers’ intemperate speech).
March 1, 2005
Dear Alumnae and Alumni,
As you are no doubt aware, there has [...]
The power went out again for the first time in a while, this time
around 9pm (a guess based on the flashing clocks). This time it seems
to have kicked Rachel’s computer hard drive… the outages are now
escalating from nuisance to actual damage. I’ll have to remember to
contact NStar again (who, btw., never called back from the [...]
Having not yet visited Christo’s The Gates installation in Central Park, I can’t say whether the Somerville Gates really compare. But, the creator of the latter does.
… I’m assuming there will only be one — but who knows?
The only Boston-area Army Corps of Engineers hearing on the Cape Cod wind farm project will take place tonight,
7-11pm, at MIT at 77 Mass Ave., Room 10-250. It’s crucial that our
regional, state, national, and international interests overcome
backwards-looking NIMBYists. Quite frankly, the aesthetic impact of
wind turbines is nothing compared to the health and environmental
impact of power [...]
Philip Greenspun (of arsDigita
fame) went home-shopping in Cambridge and was appalled at the
structurally unsound half-house in Central Square that he found for
$1.25 million. Greenspun’s pretty off-base in his assessment of the
neighborhood: “Central Square is a place with pretty high crime rates
(the city owns
much of the housing in the area and fills it up with people [...]
For as long as we’ve lived at our apartment, we’ve had irregular
power outages. Sometimes we get notices from NStar about planned
“service upgrades,” but about 90% of the time we don’t. Generally the
power goes out between the hours of 1 and 3 a 15-minute stretches.
The situation is quite annoying because it causes all the clocks to
reset, [...]
Rachel and I couldn’t help but head out this evening over to our local bar to cheer on the Sox as they swept
to victory. We hooked into the game in the top of the 8th (I’d come
home late after some Kerry phonebanking), and the standing-room crowd
was pulsating with excitement. The in-house DJ spun great tunes [...]
…At least that’s what you’d think if you believed the Globe’s coverage of the Pring-Wilson trial.
Journalists have inflated a simple comparison
of the backgrounds of the two combatants, Alexander Pring-Wilson
(a Harvard graduate student) and Michael Colono (a “townie”), into a claim that class tensions in our
neighborhood are just waiting to erupt:
The case has stoked class tensions [...]
We came out of the Central T station and
BAMN, we walked smack into a block-long DANCE PARTY. Aw yeah,
it’s not just the WORLD’S FAIR, it’s a DNC KICKOFF. And looking at the
street tonight, you could see that there’s more to our city than
hippies and yuppies. Our town KICKS.Elders youngsters blacks whites
asians large small — [...]
