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...only remaining barrier to University plans for affiliate housing on the site--now the largest undeveloped plot of land in Harvard Square--is clean-up of a "low level" of oil found on the property last summer, said Marilyn L. O'Connell, assistant director for urban planning and community affairs...
Harvard is averaging 5.7 goals per game and hasn't been shut out this season. Four team members--Captain Lane MacDonald, Bourbeau, junior C.J. Young and sophomore Peter Ciavaglia--have shattered the 50-point barrier, and five more forwards have scored 20-plus points...
...country club -- is for whites only. Blacks in token numbers may be tolerated. But when their numbers exceed a so-called tipping point, many whites go on the defensive. A generation ago, the color bar was rigid and well defined: no blacks allowed. Now it has become a shifting barrier that can suddenly materialize, curtly reminding blacks that no matter how successful they may be, they remain in some ways second-class citizens. As black psychiatrist James P. Comer wrote in his family memoir, Maggie's American Dream, "Being black in America is often like playing your home games...
Though their incomes, education and life-styles rival those of their white counterparts, middle-class blacks remain in some ways second-class citizens. Even with the passage of civil rights laws, a color barrier still exists where blacks live and work. Nor has their own affluence resolved ambiguous feelings about the plight of the underclass. -- For black managers the toughest challenge is learning to be the boss. See LIVING...
MacDonald has broken the 50-point barrier in all four years of his Crimson career, and is currently in second place on the Harvard all-time scoring list with 218 points...