Report: Law Schools Share Blame For Unemployment Among Recent Grads Recent law school graduates face one of the worst-ever job markets for entry-level lawyers — and it’s not just the economy that gets the blame. A new report by the Massachusetts Bar Association says law schools themselves are a big part of the problem.
CBS News The center of the home: The kitchen island Often thought of as the center of the home, the kitchen island is a recent invention that is now a feature in about 50 percent of new homes. Nancy Giles reports.
Books With 140 Characters I run a book club. It’s a highly democratic operation, and the members choose what books they want to read. What with varying tastes and all, building a consensus can prove challenging. That may be true of any reading group, but my predicament is unusual: this book club has, at last count, 64,483 members.
The Boston Herald Clean Harbors CEO’s $5M kickstarts Northeastern biz center Northeastern University is launching a new center focused on training students and alumni to become entrepreneurs, made possible by a $5 million investment by alumnus and Clean Harbors, Inc. founder Alan S. McKim.
Massachusetts unemployment rate falls to 6.3% in April Massachusetts continued its long slog out of the recession in April, as employers added jobs for the fifth consecutive month and the state unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than three years.
Clean Harbors CEO funds new Northeastern U. center for entrepreneurship Northeastern University has started a new center to train students and alumni to become entrepreneurs, according to an announcement on the university’s website.
Northeastern students’ plan would create more pedestrian space on crowded North End street Engineering students from Northeastern University waded into the ongoing controversy over heavy pedestrian traffic on the North End’s Hanover Street recently, proposing solutions that included replacing street parking with temporary sidewalk extensions each summer.
Northeastern Announces a New Center for Entrepreneurship Education When Northeastern President Joseph Aoun visited this year’s Husky Startup Challenge, he said “the world is about innovation,” and that it needs to be fostered. “You need to start as early as possible,” he admitted and, today, Northeastern’s taking one big step toward making that happen.
Citizenship to Go Citizenship laws are in the news again. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota acquired, and then quickly renounced, Swiss citizenship. Eduardo Saverin, a founder of Facebook who was born in Brazil and lives in Singapore, gave up his United States citizenship, perhaps to avoid American taxes. Anti-immigrant activists are claiming that the 14th Amendment does not bestow citizenship on […]
The Hill Pomp and circumstance: Politicians deliver words of advice to the Class of 2012 Call it the campaign cycle’s rite of spring: Politicians always seem to sprout up behind a university commencement lectern this time of year — but especially during presidential elections.
Experts: Circumstances of Florida family slayings ‘really unusual’ The early-morning slaughter of four Florida siblings at the hands of what authorities say was their mother is an “almost unheard of” case, crime experts said Wednesday.
Mass. Senate approves revamp of state medical board The drive to revamp the discipline reporting system for doctors in Massachusetts continued this week on Beacon Hill, with the Senate approving a measure that would make that system more transparent.