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Last week, Harvard finally reached a deal with neighboring Watertown that will give millions of dollars to the city over the coming years as compensation for the University’s purchase of the Arsenal office complex. The neighborhood’s almost unanimously favorable reaction gives us hope that Harvard may be turning a corner in its heretofore clumsy community relations...
When the University purchased the 30-acre Arsenal plot a year and a half ago, the community’s outcry was harsh—but its alarm was justified. Because Harvard is a tax-exempt institution, Watertown would have lost millions of dollars in revenue when the Arsenal site was removed from the city’s tax rolls. That revenue accounted for almost 5 percent of Watertown’s entire budget, money Watertown had been counting on for library and school renovations among other projects...
CHEMICAL Although an extensive arsenal, including 690 tons of a chemical weapons agent, was destroyed by UNSCOM, Iraq may still have a stockpile of chemical-weapons munitions and the ingredients to produce weaponized mustard gas, VX and other nerve agents...
BIOLOGICAL The biggest, scariest unknown in Saddam's arsenal: inspectors know 17 tons of biological-weapons growth culture for making anthrax was unaccounted for in previous inspections, and suspect much more like it is out there...
While news of Harvard’s May 2001 Arsenal purchase sparked protests by residents, children and politicians—all concerned that the town would lose a third of its tax base to a non-profit, tax-exempt institution—last night’s meeting was marked by two standing ovations and long lists of thank-yous and welcomes...