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News Notes – January 17
Obama to speak on campus SundayThe Huntington News – January 16, 2010 President Barack Obama will speak at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Cabot Center to endorse Martha Coakley’s senate campaign, according to the Boston Globe. Doors will open at 1 p.m. The event is free and for the public. Check twitter.com/huntnewsnu and this website [...]
News Notes – January 16
Obama may speak at Northeastern UniversityBy Matt Viser and Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff – January 16, 2010 President Barack Obama is considering Northeastern University as the venue for his visit to Massachusetts on Sunday to boost the US Senate candidacy of Martha Coakley, Coakley said this morning. The Obama rally is tentatively slated for 3 [...]
News Notes – January 15
Time-Traveling With the Muses in BostonBy HOLLAND COTTER/NYT – January 14, 2010 BOSTON — You love art. When and where did that start? In school? At home? In books? For me it began when I was a kid in the 1950s and ’60s, before and during my teens. The primal scene was divided between two [...]
News Notes – January 14 – Premiere of Puccini's Tosca, 1900
Northeastern exceeds admissions quota – City Council President Mike Ross says off-campus students are raising rentBy Laura Mueller-Soppart/Huntington News Staff – January 14, 2010 Boston City Council President Mike Ross publicly denounced Northeastern for the number of students has compromised long-time residents of Mission Hill, but property managers and residents have differing perspectives. According to [...]
News Notes – January 13
Squeezed by Back Bay tycoon, aging professor may yet prevail By Brian McGrory – Globe Columnist / January 13, 2010 When will Michael Kettenbach and Gary Crossen ever learn? Last we saw Kettenbach, one of the more prominent in-laws in the feuding Demoulas family, he was on the losing end of a string of rulings [...]
News Notes – January 12
Developer, Hub benefactor Edward Linde dead at 68By Casey Ross – Globe Staff / January 12, 2010 During a 45-year career, Edward H. Linde changed the face of modern Boston, leaving an indelible imprint on the city’s skyline and culture – from the Prudential Center towers to the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts [...]
News Notes – January 11
Boston prods NU on student numbers – Councilor, BRA cite 15,000 limitBy Casey Ross – Globe Staff / January 11, 2010 Renewing a long-simmering dispute, Boston officials are accusing Northeastern University of reneging on commitments to limit its undergraduate enrollment to 15,000 and move more students out of city neighborhoods. In a letter to the [...]
News Notes – January 10
Online instead of on campusBy Dave Copeland – Globe Correspondent / January 10, 2010 Stephen Balzac got his undergraduate degree the old-fashioned way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but when his career focus shifted from software engineering to management and, eventually to psychology, he joined the tens of thousands of people who are earning [...]
News Notes – January 9
Economist faulted for his ties to Obama – Critics say he failed to tell of his paid work By Kay Lazar and Lisa Wangsness – Globe Staff / January 9, 2010 Jonathan Gruber, a well-known health economist at MIT and a member of the board that oversees the landmark Massachusetts health care law, is being [...]
News Notes – January 8 – Battle of New Orleans, 1815
New Year’s incident prompts talk on taxi, wheelchair concerns – Zakim daughter, Menino to meetBy Erica Noonan – Globe Staff / January 8, 2010 Being in a wheelchair has not stopped 23-year-old Shari Zakim of Newton from an independent, fast-paced life. She can often be seen speeding down Huntington Avenue in her lightweight titanium chair [...]