Sixteen young men from Dorchester are now alumni of Boston College High School after a graduation ceremony on the Morrissey Boulevard campus last Saturday that drew more than 2,000 members of the BC High community. “Our school will be forever inspired by the dedication and fortitude of the class of 2021,” said Grace Cotter Regan, the school’s president. “Their leadership,
Affirm spinout Resolve raises $60M for its B2B ‘buy now, pay later’ platform
Buy now, pay later is everywhere these days, mostly focused on the consumer.
Resolve a San Francisco-based startup in the space specializing in “buy now, pay later” capabilities for B2B transactions announced today that it has raised $60 million in funding. Initialized Capital led the round the company’s first funding since its 2019 inception. KSD Capital, Haystack VC, Commerce Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and others also participated.
The funding is a combination of equity and asset funding according to co-founder and CEO Chris Tsai, although he declined to reveal the breakdown.
Putting on and losing weight at your pleasure is an obscene luxury only Hollywood can afford
Mark Wahlberg and Will Smith are gaining all of the weight with none of the pain – and making the rest of us feel worse than ever
Mark Wahlberg, before and after
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What a sweet, indulgent treat it would be – particularly for a man such as myself, of reasonably poor shape and robust body anxiety – to indulge in Mark Wahlberg’s new movie regime: gaining 30 guilt-free pounds from a 7,000-calorie per-day diet.
Totally secure in the knowledge that when all’s said and done, you’d have the ludicrous privilege of time, money, and lifestyle to return to your movie star physique for the next multi-million-dollar action role.
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Cecile Dang, left, and Bryan Nguyen hold signs in support of the Asian American community during a student-led rally in San Francisco on March 26, 2021.
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Thursday afternoon announced charges against a man suspected of stabbing two elderly Asian women on Market Street earlier this week.
Patrick Thompson, a 54-year-old San Francisco resident, is being charged with two counts of premeditated attempted murder, along with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse, the San Francisco DA s office said in a statement Thursday. The charges carry a potential life sentence.
Wishful thinking: saving polar bears with coffee cups
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In a weary state, I lumbered into a local doughnut shop and purchased 16 ounces of black liquid. The barista handed me a warm disposable cup with a plastic lid. I could already feel the pressure from my headache subsiding. I left the doughnut shop. While walking down a busy SW Broadway in Portland, OR, I repeatedly burned my mouth as I hastily engulfed my scalding drink until I was left with an empty container. I came to a full stop.
I was frozen, standing on the sidewalk with my arm bent at a sharp right angle a temporary paralysis only broken by my eyes as they glanced from left to right. I stared at the three separate receptacles in front of me and then back to the empty coffee cup with black plastic lid and cardboard sleeve in my hand. The receptacles were labeled: trash, recycle and compost in friendly, reassuring font. But my mind was in torment, wrestling with a grave moral dilemma; Where the hell do I put my c