Word just came in that the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, an unelected and wholly unrepresentative body with sweeping powers over the budget of the 5 campus system, backed a $1500 fee hike for the next school year despite strong protests from student leaders.
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27 Feb 2009 - 11:10pm
VLC media player can play pretty much any video format a user throws at it. It's an essential application for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
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27 Feb 2009 - 10:55pm
BOSTON/Roxbury - Councilor Chuck Turner (G/R-District 7) rallied over 200 supporters at Roxbury Community College on Tuesday in the wake of an announcement by Ronald Wilburn, the only witness and the linchpin of the federal bribery case against Turner, that he would no longer cooperate with the
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27 Feb 2009 - 9:56pm
BOSTON/Copley Square - Boston community organizer and antiracism activist Ty dePass presented a speech on "Racism, the Media, and the Struggle for Justice in 'Post-Racial America,'" at the Community Church of Boston on February 22, 2009.
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27 Feb 2009 - 8:57am
On Sunday, March 1, hundreds will rally outside 3 Massachusetts coal-fired power plants (Salem - noon, Holyoke and Somerset - 1 p.m.), standing with others across the country to demand that our state and nation end the deadly use of coal and start building a secure green economy.
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27 Feb 2009 - 3:48am
Cambridge, MA - Prof.
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26 Feb 2009 - 6:56pm
BOSTON/Copley Square - NEWS BRIEF - Close to 40 community activists and residents rallied outside a Bank of America branch to kick off "Thursdays-at-the-Bank" afternoon protests that run through March 19 in Copley Square.
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20 Feb 2009 - 11:47pm
As the world witnesses the spectacle of the Pirate Bay trial enter its fifth day, a new and quietly growing music torrent indexing site adds albums, listens to user feedback, and provides new functionality.
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20 Feb 2009 - 11:44pm
Well, well.
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20 Feb 2009 - 9:19pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Over 50 people from the Service Employees International Union and allied organizations held a picket at 2 downtown Burger King locations Thursday.
