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...school's precipitous rise, and the influx of volatile new ideas on the meaning of architecture, bred a peculiar mixture of worldwide fame--and campus controversy. As the University entered a period of rapid institutional growth, Harvard administrators hesitated to abandon the Georgian Revivalist style of the old Yard and the river houses...
Were Harvard to abandon its restraint and raise its voice on behalf of a compelling cause, it would have toppled an ivory tower only to replace it with a no less ignominious Tower of Babel...
...spate of such letters has apparently influenced decisions to abandon a project to reverse the course of several rivers in the northern part of the country and to scale back a widely criticized plan for a war memorial. The huge monument, if built, would have obliterated the top of the Poklannaya Hill, which gives visitors a panoramic view of Moscow from the west. The projected war memorial was denounced by letter writers as "shameful," "monstrous" and an example of "gigantomania." Such public censure of projects already approved by the top leadership would never have been tolerated under previous Soviet regimes...
...them in the Makarov district, west of Kiev. More than 2,000 new homes have been occupied, and 5,000 more are planned. The houses are being donated to the people, and sponsoring agencies, like local farm collectives, are giving them food and clothing. The evacuees were forced to abandon their contaminated belongings when they fled to safety...
...pandemonium is due to what the British are calling Big Bang, a code name for what amounts to a revolution that is sweeping local financial and capital markets. Formally, Big Bang refers to the deregulation of Britain's domestic securities markets, when the 218-member London Stock Exchange will abandon a system of fixed commissions for brokers. The Exchange will also drop a traditional separation between the brokers, who execute stock and bond trades for their clients, and the so-called jobbers, who handle the brokers' orders as well as manage their own hefty accounts. This upheaval, roughly akin...