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The Days May Be Grim, but Here's a Good Word to Put in Your Pocket
" The Waterfalls " flowed in the East River. "The Gates" snaked through Central Park.
Keeping alive the home of a poet
Their paths might never have crossed if it hadn't been for a gut feeling Carol Stockmal had about the house on Woodford Street.
When the Worcester-based composer Joseph Summer agreed to take over running Commonwealth Opera of Northampton earlier this year, he knew he needed someone working alongside him whom he could trust, who could stage opera, and who shared his aesthetic vision.
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Nuclea raises $3.4M in equity funding
Nuclea Biotechnologies LLC has raised $3.4 million in private equity funding that it will use to fund its diagnostic and clinical laboratories at Clark University in Worcester.
Another Research Shocker: Lesbian Edition
For all those unaware that lesbians take better care of their cats than most straight people take care of their children, research has now officially shown that "Lesbians Make 'Better Parents.'" Research at Birkbeck College, part of London University, and Clark University in Massachusetts suggests that same-sex couples make good parents because ...
Lesbians make 'better parents' says senior parenting official
Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do better in life than the offspring of heterosexual couples.
Dan Deacon Hospitalized For Back Problems, Shows Cancelled
Famed for his live shows, Dan Deacon is a musicians who doesn't play onstage, but in the audience.
Working Class column: Suicide due to job stress a growing problem globally
A 51-year-old father of two who worked in a French call center threw himself from a highway bridge in late September.
People like to think of their favorite artists, writers, or thinkers as struggling on the outskirts, misunderstood by their contemporaries and cast aside by the establishment.
Theater arts major blogging about her semester in London
Clark University junior Allison C. Schenkler of Port Washington, New York, is spending her fall semester interning at the Unicorn Theatre in London, England through Clark's London Internship Program, and is sharing her experiences through her blog .
Gay marriage: Good for the kids?
Where I grew up, the issue of whether gays and lesbians made OK parents was a non-starter. In the liberal enclave of Berkeley, Calif., the answer is considered so obvious the question almost seems rhetorical: Of course there are both "good" and "bad" homosexual parents -- just as there are both "good" and "bad" heterosexual parents.
Looking back at contributions of Goddard
Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.
Clark president going to Heritage University
Clark University President John Bassett will become the next president of Heritage University in Toppenish, Wash., following his retirement from Clark in July, he announced today.
Jason La Mountain is originally from New York City, but he moved to Worcester in 2002 to attend Clark University.
Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting
So many gay couples today have kids that it has become a cultural phenomenon - there's even a new TV show about a modern family that includes a gay couple with an adopted baby.
It will be interesting to see whether the Roberts court invigorates the left as the Warren court did the right.
U.S. agency proposes change for...
The U.S. National Mediation Board has proposed a sweeping rule change that would base the outcome of union elections at airlines and rail companies on the majority approval of people who vote, a move that could increase the odds of unions winning such contests.
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In 1921, when he was six years old, Souren Antoyan was sent from his occupied homeland of Armenia to spend the next eight years in orphanages, including the Australian-run Ghazir Orphanage, in Beirut.
Clark University Leases 8,470 SF In...
Clark University Graduate School of Management has leased 8,470 square feet for its satellite campus at 333 Turnpike Road in Southborough.
Ford's Bid to Obtain UAW Concessions Dims as Rejections Mount at Factories
Ford Motor Co. hourly employees at three more factories rejected union contract concessions, dimming the automakera s prospects for winning the givebacks granted to U.S. competitors.
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