Word: allston
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...information services across the University. * Rudenstine seemed rested, renewed and optimistic after a month long working-vacation in Europe this summer. Though not out of mind, many of last year's controversies-like those over Associate Professor of Government Bonnie Honig, Harvard Institute for International Development and Harvard's Allston land purchase-seemed out of sight. * And Rudenstine should have more time to devote to his agenda, since the staff of senior administrators Rudenstine relies on to run a complex and far-flung University seems stable for the first time in his presidency. Gone are the year-long quests...
Harvard officials misled Allston residents at a public meeting in June when they told nearly 175 community members that President Neil L. Rudenstine has committed the University to never again purchase land secretly under his watch...
Harvard's pronouncement in early June that from 1988 to 1994 it had secretly acquired 52.6 acres of land in the Allston section of Boston consumed the agenda of the June 25th meeting of the Allston Civic Association...
Rudenstine made no commitments- or even an explicit statement-when asked repeatedly about the future of the University's policy on third-party purchasing, known as buying through a "straw." For the Allston purchases, Harvard officials hired Beal Cos., a prominent real estate developer in Boston, to purchase the 14 parcels for them during the seven-year period...
Those who attended the Allston Civic Association meeting in June said they heard an explicit promise, and Harvard officials present said it was meant...