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Headlines from the Web

Mass High Tech announces All-Stars award winners

9/5/2008 9:31:43 AM

Source: Mass High Tech

Spot on Popularity Scale Speaks to the Future; Middle Has Its Rewards

9/4/2008 9:25:26 PM

Source: Boston Globe

How Does 'University of Maine-Orono' Sound?

9/4/2008 12:10:04 PM

Source: Voice of America

David A. Mittell Jr.: Better left to the marketplace

9/3/2008 12:08:42 AM

Source: Providence Journal

UMass unions plan pickets on 1st day

9/1/2008 5:17:34 PM

Source: NBC 22 Springfield (WWLP)

UMass Unions Plan Pickets As Classes Start

9/1/2008 1:59:08 PM

Source: TheBostonChannel.com

Lower your ATM scores while you shop colleges

9/1/2008 5:06:55 AM

Source: Boston Globe

Latest Articles

Unhinging the binge

Some drinks are just too good to chug
I have a possible solution for the binge-drinking quandary: be more discerning about what you pour down your throat.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | September 02, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Steve Hofstetter

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Do you think we as a nation will ever be prepared to grant Dave Coulier immunity for his involvement with Alanis?
By MARC HIRSH | August 27, 2008

Women on the verge

Clinton die-hards have created a new-girls’ network bent on remedying decades of sexism by putting women in elected office
At next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Hillary Clinton’s delegates will get just about everything they’ve wanted — aside from the nomination of their candidate, of course.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 20, 2008

R.I.P. Richard Egbert, super-tough defense lawyer

In Memoriam
In the time before Buddy Cianci’s Plunder Dome trial in 2002, I met with Richard Egbert, the quintessential take-no-prisoners defense lawyer, and gleaned a telling detail about him.
By IAN DONNIS | July 30, 2008

AG should probe BPL

Supposedly ‘independent’ trustees receive city funds. Why Birmingham rather than Bulger for the top job?
Political innocents who discount allegations that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is politicizing the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees so that he can directly control the nation’s oldest free municipal library received a rude awakening recently.
By EDITORIAL | July 23, 2008

Looking out for the public interest

Christine Lopes leads the charge at Common Cause of RI
Lopes has steadily ramped up her efforts in the time since, focusing on such perennial Common Cause topics as open records, voting integrity, campaign-finance-reform and separation of powers.
By IAN DONNIS | July 21, 2008

Everybody get together

‘Boston Young Contemporaries’ at 808 Gallery, ‘Big Bugs’ at Garden in the Woods, and the 10th Annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery
The 808 Gallery is a BIG space to fill.
By RANDI HOPKINS | July 08, 2008

Streetball spectacle

The other end of the court

By NEELY STEINBERG | June 18, 2008

Jobs with a future

With the job market in flux, how can colleges prepare students for any career?
A fifth/a quarter/a third of all jobs that people will be doing in 15/20/25 years have yet to be conceived, or the job you’re doing now won’t exist in 20 years, or not in the way you do it now.
By F.S. WOLFE | April 28, 2008

Tweens of yore

Blogging the Baby-Sitters Club
At age eight, Kimberly Hutt sent a manuscript to Scholastic Corporation.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | April 23, 2008

Middle of the Road

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, Paradise Rock Club, October 18, 2007
Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers may be a serious band with a full-length debut out on Everfine that features Caitlin Cary, but they don’t take themselves too seriously.
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 23, 2007

Can even the Greatest be free of the past?

Action speaks!
Action Speaks! returns next week a focus on freedom.
By IAN DONNIS | October 03, 2007

The wisdom of crowds

Comic timing
Well before the appointed hour, nearly a thousand people had gathered at tiny Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park in North Cambridge, waiting for . . . well, no one really knew.
By GEORGIANA COHEN | September 26, 2007

While you were out . . .

Yes, stuff happened in Boston during your summer break. But we’ve got it covered.
When you’re a student, it can seem as if reality just freezes when you leave town for the summer.
By ADAM REILLY | September 04, 2007

Umess

Letters to the Boston editor, June 29, 2007
I am vice-chancellor for university advancement at UMass Boston and I support President Jack Wilson’s plan for forming a united front.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 28, 2007

The mess at UMass

Picking up the pieces in the wake of a destructive power play. Plus, the immigration debate.
Before he terminated his do-little term as governor to kick off his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney planted a ticking time bomb at the University of Massachusetts.
By EDITORIAL | June 13, 2007

The Mormonator

Mitt Romney has a steely-eyed mission to crush his opponents. Next battlefield: Ames, Iowa.
With the single-minded discipline and cold-blooded calculation of a cyborg, Mitt Romney is executing an aggressive campaign plan.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 23, 2007