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Winthrop Park, on JFK St. in front of Grendel's restaurant, originally served in 1631 as Newtown Marketplace. In the early 1800s, it was converted into a park. By late September of 1986, the park, which has since degenerated into a mass of weeds and a haven for street people, will be completely relandscaped, said Kitty Dukakis, director of the Public Space Partnership project at the Kennedy School and wife of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...request for preservation of unique materials in the University library system, the proposal also includes requests from specific Harvard libraries. Among the more unusual requests: Langdell Library at the Law School wants $25,000 to microfilm the official law gazettes of Latin-American countries which date back to the 1800s, and the Harvard Archives in Pusey Library needs $100 to microfilm Harvard mathematical theses of the 18th century...
...central argument of immigration reformers, the possibility of a backlash against newcomers, has precedent in U.S. history. Much of the country's immigration legislation of the late 1800s and early 1900s, for example, was specifically written with the aim of barring Chinese and other Asians. But the Urban Institute's Muller believes there is now more tolerance and less racial animosity than at any other time in U.S. history. Says he: "There is no public attitude remotely like the virulent attitude of the 1840s and 1920s. I don't detect any strong backlash out there...
...POOR MEXICO," the saying goes, "so far from god and so close to the United States." Coined by a Mexican president in the late 1800s, the saying remains ample evidence of the fear and mistrust Mexicans have always felt toward their northern neighbor. Not without reason: In a war largely forgotten on this side of the Rio Grande, the U.S. in 1848 seized almost half of Mexico's territory. In 1914 and 1916 we invaded Mexico again, to control a revolution whose outcome we feared...
...more involved, it takes up more and more of your interest and time," says the English major. "looking back at pictures from the 1800s, you realize the tradition and it's easy to get caught...