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Only one resident at the meeting spoke out against the moratorium, saying it would create a barrier to discussions between Harvard and the community. The University last met with Riverside residents to discuss the museum proposal in late June...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locals Support Halt of Riverside Development | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...policeman then, keeping his drawn baton to the side, walked at the man and, with his chest, pressed him against the Plexiglas bus barrier and moved his face in to a kissing distance...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...could NBC have missed this train? Didn't the runaway success of Millionaire alert everyone in the U.S. over the age of three that network TV was about to crash through yet another barrier of diminishing taste and expectations? Sassa explained this lapse of attention: "We were obsessed"--he might have said afflicted--"with having the highest quality shows and the highest quality audiences, and because of that we weren't as aggressive on [reality TV] as we could have been." In English: Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace were attracting the well-to-do young viewers advertisers cherish, and reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Peacock In Shackles | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...HUPD officer requested a rescue for a six-year-old boy who fell and lacerated his forehead. He was transported to Cambridge Hospital for care. The officer was unable to obtain any information from the boy because of a language barrier...

Author: By Ben M. Briandet and Rajae Merzoug, S | Title: Police Log | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

Haworth busted the gender barrier a couple years ago in her hometown of Savannah, Ga., to the amazement of the local Y chromosomes. Men and teenage boys are, in fact, her biggest fans. At 17 this high school senior is already the world's best junior weight lifter, and she aims to be Olympic champion. "She's the best woman lifter I've ever seen," says her coach, Mike Cohen, a former Olympian who now runs Team Savannah, one of the country's top weight-lifting centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Power Sisters | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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