For many, ‘mean girl’ practice starts early
Mar 12th
The girl came home from school upset. A classmate had called her names. Told her everyone hated her. Said she couldn’t sit with the others at lunch. The other girls all went along with it.
Such “mean girl’’ behavior is not new. Girl-on-girl cruelty has long been the subject of books, TV shows, and movies about tween and teen girls.
Siobhan Magnus books spot among Idol’s final dozen
Mar 12th
Siobhan Magnus has clinched an all-important spot among the top 12 finalists on “American Idol”.
Her performance of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” earlier this week wowed three out of four of the judges, and enough of the viewers who voted to keep the 19-year-old from Marstons Mills moving forward in the competition.
State workers get sweet deals on posh rental properties
Mar 12th
State workers are getting cut-rate, taxpayer-subsidized rent to live in waterfront homes and leafy suburbs in state parks from Brewster to Rockport – even as Beacon Hill seeks to halt a fiscal fiasco set to slash cash for teachers, libraries and the disabled.
Another jewel lost in Greenway crown
Mar 12th
Four years after showing off plans for a glitzy $80 million building on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, organizers of the New Center for Arts and Culture have decided to abandon those plans, leaving yet another empty space on the sprawling tract created by the Big Dig.
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