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Post- magazine’s top ten ways to balance the budget

1. Shrink Katherine Bergeron’s “bedazzle my cape” fund.

2. Downgrade the CIT’s furnished atrium from MTC Cribs-worthy to semi-luxyry.

3. Hey, let’s give List to RISD.

4. Stop funding the Indy. Lord knows they need the controversy.

5. Ruth Simmons could share some of her monies.

6. Bake(d!!) sale.

7. Fire three deans. give Alice a raise.

8. Replace omelet line with umlaut line. Bëëf Tips: It’s what’s for dinner.

9. Cut Safewalk; walk dangerously.

10. Get rid of DPS Segways, replace them with pogo sticks.

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March 4, 2010   No Comments   Tags: , , , , ,

Cup o’ (Pro)Jo 2/4

Hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters converged on the State House yesterday to pressure lawmakers to pass marriage equality legislation.  Four candidates for governor–Lincoln Chafee, Todd Giroux, Frank Caprio, and Patrick Lych–addressed the crowded and expressed their support for the legislation.

Supt. Frances Gallo is ready to start negotiating with the teachers union after the controversial firing of Central Falls teachers last week.  The change in tone came after the president of the union announced that teachers would be willing to consider reforms aimed at shoring up Central Falls’ failing high school.

A Florida lawyer, Scott Rothstein, and his wife owe over $10 million in unpaid taxes, and federal authorities were granted authority to seize the couple’s 24 homes in Rhode Island, Florida, and New York.  No stranger to scandal, Rothstein has also been convicted of orchestrating a massive $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

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Ratty vs. V-Dub. 3/4

Lunch: V-Dub
Vegan nuggets at the Ratty? Vegan food should not look like fake meat, not in our book.

Dinner: Ratty
Tamale pie at the Ratty and paella at the V-Dub makes this a battle of the Hispanic dishes, Aztecs vs. Spaniards. Let’s give the Aztecs a consolatory victory here, because they were annihilated in real life.

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Timewaster of the day

Celebrities aren’t as tall as you might think. This site should help the short people with their Napoleonic complexes.

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