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Regatta draws rowers, throngs to banks of the Charles — Gallery

Some of the world's best rowers convene at boathouses in Boston and Cambridge this weekend to engage in the 51st Head of the Charles Regatta, a two-day fest of brawn, stamina and skill with oar and helm that pits 11,000 athletes against one another and the unrelenting

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Doyle tapped to replace Johnson on Boston health board

BOSTON – The Boston Board of Health got a new leader this week as Mayor Marty Walsh named Frank Doyle to chair the panel, replacing Dr. Paula Johnson, who is taking over this summer as the new president of Wellesley College. Doyle, a lawyer, is the executive director of Boston HealthNet,

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Asian-American Lin to head national campus Christian group

MADISON, Wisc. – One of the nation's leading organizations serving Christian college students has named Tom Lin its next leader. He will become InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA's first Asian-American president in August. Lin, 43, will take over InterVarsity, an evangelical organization, as it enters its 75th year

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Amherst College wins $1M prize for helping low-income students

AMHERST – Amherst College received a $1 million award that recognizes its programs that help "high achieving students from low-income families" succeed, including underwriting study abroad and internships. The Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the most substantial award given to

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Do we still dream the dream?

Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played

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WATCH: How accurate are campus sexual assault statistics?

Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard that American universities are in the midst of a campus "rape crisis." But are they? Should parents fear for their children's safety when dropping them off at school? In her Factual Feminist vlog, AEI scholar Christina Hoff

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Demands for ‘safe’ spaces lead to campus debates

NEWTON – While many Massachusetts campuses have become battlegrounds over acceptable forms of expression – such as what constitutes "hate speech" or should be considered "safe spaces" – resistance to "political correctness" has also cropped up in what amounts to a debate over a fundamental American freedom.

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State law banning secret recording faces court challenge

BOSTON – Project Veritas, a guerilla journalism group known for taking undercover videos focusing a conservative eye on topics ranging from vote fraud to Common Core educational standards, sued in federal court to upend a Massachusetts law that bans most surreptitious recording. The group, led by James O'Keefe, named