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After a regularly scheduled morning meeting of University deans, the group decided to allow Lowell House Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin and J. Bryan Hehir, the acting dean of the Harvard Divinity School, to enter Mass. Hall and talk with protesters...
...Austin and Hehir arrived yesterday at 11 a.m., to the surprise of protesters who asked that they return at 2 p.m. PSLM then decided on the four protesters who would represent PSLM...
...Austin, Hehir and four PSLM members sat down in Mass. Hall's second-floor conference room shortly after 2 p.m., exactly 7 days and 35 minutes after the occupation began...
Ground zero for ranch mania is the hill country. Since 1994, the rugged, picturesque hills west of Austin and San Antonio have been Texas' hottest destination for retirees and investors alike--in large part because of its temperate climate. Tech millionaires from Dell, Compaq and Microsoft, tobacco-settlement lawyers, oil- and gasmen (back in the money, thanks to the California energy crisis) have all snapped up parcels from 50 acres to 100 acres, replacing ranch houses with mansions, throwing up 10-ft.-high fences to corral herds of exotic animals--and changing a way of life forever. There are traffic...
...Kerrville, 100 miles due west of Austin, it's easy to catch the fever. At Joe's Jefferson Street Cafe, cell phones of Realtors chirp away during lunch with calls from buyers willing to dole out $3 million to $4 million for hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change...