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Hunger is on the increase at Thanksgiving time
By Marc Levy
Published: November 23, 2005
Charities are in a holiday whirlwind, accepting food donations by the truckload, sending them out again by the car-full, delivering gift baskets and holding dinners for those without families or homes. Some of the activity is on the decrease from previous years, and it’s not entirely clear why. Because the need for such services, according [...]
City manager, council continue to act against trees
By admin
Published: November 23, 2005
Monday evening, the Cambridge city manager sent to the City Council a message informing it that he had the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s permission to thin trees in the plaza at Porter Station. This almost certainly forebodes massive destruction. A brief review of the record will indicate what is coming up. The city manager has twice in the [...]
Two twists on traditions
By admin
Published: November 23, 2005
What are we eating this year? Groceries and specialty stores unique to the area say this Thanksgiving the traditional foods predominate — with little twists. “Turkeys, of course, fresh and organic,” lists Chris Durkin, at The Harvest Co-op in Central Square. “Potatoes and squash, Tofurky, chestnuts, pecans, lots of rice. Artisan breads. Pies from The [...]
Rats run out of control, and agencies are a no-show
By Rick Guinness
Published: November 23, 2005
The public testimony at yesterday’s Ordinance Committee meeting was like something out of the era of the bubonic plague, when flea-ridden rats spread an incurable disease that killed 137 million people. Maybe it isn’t that bad in Cambridge yet. But elected officials and residents at yesterday’s meeting agreed on one thing: the rats are taking [...]
Turks consider future amid area celebration
By Shava Nerad
Published: November 23, 2005
The domain of the Ottoman Turks stretched from Austria to Iraq, from Algeria to Arabia, one of the greatest empires of the world. But by the dawn of the 20th century, Turkey was the “sick man of Europe,” diminished and corrupt and falling behind in an increasingly technological world. It was one man who, nearly [...]
Give thanks: There’s after-meal fun
By Marc Levy
Published: November 23, 2005
There are many entertainment options for Thanksgiving Day, so long as you don’t want to leave your house. Looking at each other has always been popular, and washing dishes is another way to have fun after a big meal. Aside from movies, though — the Brattle Theatre is showing “Casablanca,” for instance, at 5:15, 7:30 [...]
Standing up for change
By admin
Published: November 22, 2005
The Transition House battered women’s shelter had a transition of its own Nov. 21, 2005, at the YWCA. A celebration recognized the contributions of interim executive director Joyce King, right, and welcomed new executive director Norma Wassel, standing. Seated between them is new treasurer Althea Smith. Founded in 1975, Transition House is the oldest [...]
Rift fades into history and college president becomes citizen
By Rick Guinness
Published: November 22, 2005
For more than 30 years, Cambridge College president Mahesh C. Sharma has labored to provide educational opportunities for people who never had the chance or who never tried when they had the chance. But despite all his working-class student success stories for people who might not otherwise have had a crack at the American dream, [...]
‘Multiculturalism’ means nothing. Or does it?
By Michael Scott Moore
Published: November 22, 2005
Coverage of the riots in France by the American press has been skimpy, as far as I can tell from Over Here, but I’ve noticed that a few right-leaning pundits did take the chance to bash multiculturalism, and the French, and Europe as a whole, not to mention critics of the Iraq war, before moving [...]
Gargoyle watches over neighborhood left behind
By Lauren Weidner
Published: November 22, 2005
Many may be familiar with Disney’s rendition of the gargoyle archetype from the cartoon version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”: singing and dancing demonic effigies befriending social pariahs from cathedral roofs. This is a rather campy view of these figures, which are normally used to ward off other creatures that go bump [...]