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...addition, young, affluent professionals have mobilized their own coalition of candidates this year, leading both liberal and conservative pols to wonder whether their traditional political bases in ethnic working-class neighborhoods will survive the onslaught of newcomers to Cambridge...
...epitomizes the Theater of Ideas: its centerpiece is a literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting...
Residents of an affluent Boston suburb voted overwhelmingly last night to purchase $3.5 million worth of parkland from Harvard's Arnold Arboretum for $3.5 million dollars...
...Weston had decided to turn down the offer, Harvard was prepared to sell the acreage to two executives of Cambridge's General Computer Corporation, said Harold Hestnes '58, an attorney who lives in the affluent suburb...
...chronic lack of water at high altitudes, want to pump treated sewage through their snowmaking equipment. So far Vermont's environmental conservation agency has not approved the innovation. The proposal has set off a battle between environmentalists and resort owners. One bumper sticker reads, KILLINGTON: WHERE THE AFFLUENT MEET THE EFFLUENT. Killington officials and local developers are not amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass, a Killington carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal...