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...businesses in the Square for generations.” According to Gray, the University currently owns 30 storefronts in the Square, almost all of which house independent businesses.“We don’t rent to banks. We don’t rent to chain stores. We accept significantly less rent for our space than we could,” Power says. “We worked very hard to support local independent businesses at significant cost to Harvard.”‘THE GOOD GUYS’Some of Harvard’s tenants...
...Somewhere, behind all the bluster, lays the real reason for this purposeless debate. It’s not about academic definitions or historical precedents; ultimately, it’s about preserving American sensibilities. By accepting a change in terminology, news organizations accept not only the failure of the U.S. invasion, but also the unsettling responsibilities and blame associated with that failure. Evidently, that’s too raw for editorial boards of major media outlets, and so they seek solace in the safety of semantics...
...staying power, however, could depend on the opposition's ability to rebound from a demoralizing loss and maintain the unity it established on the campaign trail to end years of self-defeating bickering among its various parties. Rosales' brief concession speech suggested the opposition may have resolved to accept that Chavez won't be ousted any time soon, and to instead take the long view and strengthen their movement through grassroots organizational work - a counterintuitive option for a movement that has its origins in two parties of the political and economic elite that had maintained a lock on power...
...longtime critic of the U.N. and its bureaucracy, Bolton was opposed by Democrats, and even a few Republicans, who regarded him as too confrontational for the job, and he was unable to win support in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Bush first nominated him last year. Rather than accept that rejection, however, the President gave Bolton a "recess" appointment in August 2005, allowing him to take up the high-profile U.N. post without Senate approval...
...Although the modern papacy has its script, Pope John Paul II showed that moving the world means sometimes letting yourself be moved. Benedict's late decision to accept an invitation to the Blue Mosque meant Vatican aides and their Muslim hosts would need to work out in advance the basic details of the encounter. Several hours beforehand, word had spread that last Thursday's televised visit would include a moment for silent prayer or reflection. Still, when Istanbul's top cleric, Mustafa Cagrici, told the Pope it was time for a "moment of serenity," Benedict looked for an instant...