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    • Spring 2004 Issue - 17 Articles
      Departments
    • Correspondence, pp. 6-8
    • Perspective, pp. 9-14
      Civil Service hiring rules promote mediocrity among public safety workers
    • Considered Opinion, pp. 15-24
      The state budget should focus on outcomes, not allocations
    • Washington Notebook, pp. 25-28
      Robert Greenstein and the Center on Budget get hawkish on the federal deficit
    • Civic Sense, pp. 29-30
      A Boston Globe summer series was narrative journalism at its best
    • Town Meeting Monitor, pp. 31-34
      Devens inches closer to becoming the state's newest municipality
    • Inquiries, pp. 35-40
      Downtown Boston's Greenway is still up in the air; Charles Euchner leaves big shoes to ...
    • Head Count, p. 41
      Where love doesn't go with marriage
    • Statistically Significant, pp. 42-44
      New inductees for the state's endangered species list; carefree men and worried women; ...
    • State of the States, pp. 45-46
      The Bay State's march up the State of Caring Index
    • Innovations, pp. 47-51
      Rhode Island's secretary of state takes an expanded view of civics
    • Articles
    • Blue Collar Blues, pp. 52-59
      Four castoffs of the Old Economy try to make the transition to the New
    • Worcester's Wonder, pp. 60-69
      University Park sets a new standard for inner-city public high schools
    • Discussion
    • Conversation, pp. 70-80
      Sociologist Thomas Shapiro says that a lack of assets, not income, is holding African-A...
    • Review, pp. 81-84
      A hard look at education accountability in the wake of No Child Left Behind
    • Two Bits, pp. 85-90
      State of the State speeches accentuate the positive
    • Cover Photo