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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project, which began with a $2.1 million gift to the University from Sidney R. Knafel '52, will allow Harvard to consolidate the government department and all of its centers for international study...
Soon after Knafel's donation, Harvard representatives began speaking to residents around what was then the proposed site--an unoccupied area around Gund Hall...
Although segments of the plan for the Knafel center remain controversial in the community, University administrators are confident that the building will go up. Mary H. Power says she believes Harvard's early community meetings, which began in 1997, and flexibility have made for a more receptive community...
...afternoons haven't always been so carefree. About a year ago, Leigh began feeling "down in the dumps." A diligent student, she stopped doing her homework and, instead, slept or cried away her evenings. She drifted from her childhood friends and started hanging out with an older crowd. "It was total detachment," recalls her mother Joan. "We'd keep wondering if the old Leigh was still in there." And nothing--not favorite activities like shopping at the mall or sessions with a therapist--would coax...
...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...