The assembly at Winthrop High School began with a collective oath. “I pledge and support the elimination of the R-word,” promised several hundred students, teachers, parents, administrators, and visiting politicians last week. For the next hour, speaker after speaker described how hurtful and insulting the R-word, meaning “retarded” or “retard,” is to people with intellectual disabilities. No longer would its …
Like all wars, the coffee war was ugly. It was fraught with tension, the threat of violence constant.
March 6 in Hull More than 500 people attended the Special Olympics of Massachusetts 12th Annual ”Passion Plunge” at Nantasket Beach.
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When I found out that Beverly Flaxington has taught a class called “Dealing with Difficult People,” I had to talk to her. Turns out Flaxington, who lives in Walpole, has also self-published a book, “Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior,” on how to get along with colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, even strangers.
The scrawny kid with the squeaky voice and Harry Potter glasses, the jazz prodigy from Sudbury whose feet didn’t reach the piano pedals when he began performing and recording, the autistic grade-schooler who dazzled everybody from Dave Brubeck to David Letterman with his keyboard wizardry, is growing up.
When Elisa Kreisinger wanted to protest the newly diminished visibility of gay characters and story lines on television, she didn’t launch a petition drive or write an angry op-ed piece. Instead, like many other members of the YouTube generation for whom the visual language is a native tongue, she found a way to have her say with video rather than …
The Great Books are coming to Massachusetts. The C.S. Lewis Foundation, which recently purchased a portion of the Northfield-Mount Hermon campus in central Massachusetts, hopes to open a four-year liberal arts college closely modeled on the idiosyncratic and controversial curriculum taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe and hardly anywhere else. The foundation and the college, …
Few museums can trace their beginnings to some hurried sketches made on the back on a pizza box. Then again, few museums have grown from concept to reality as quickly as Design Museum Boston.
Is Facebook flirting harmless? Let’s help a confused husband in Worcester decide. Q: Meredith – Can a Facebook fling be…