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Recent developments: After two unsuccessful proposals, last month Harvard offered Charlesview a 6.5-acre site further up Western Avenue currently occupied by the Brighton Mills Shopping Center (left circle on map). The Board found the offer suitable and has begun to pursue a swap. Some residents, however, remain unhappy and have protested the proposed move...
...When Flying was Fun While U.S. airlines are stripping amenities, some international carriers have begun offering come-ons like in-flight gambling and cell-phone use [Nov. 27]. But in its early days, commercial air travel was an exciting, glamorous affair, as described in our March 28, 1949, cover story on Pan American Airways' founder Juan Terry Trippe...
...play on Mojica’s jumper, but the pattern from the first half held true again. Harvard began to close once more, and this time the Blue Devils did not have their nearly 20-point cushion to blunt the attack. A 15-4 Harvard run, begun by captain Jim Goffredo’s first field goal of the game, on a back door cut to the hoop, and ended by his first and last three-point field goal, tied the score at 48 and let the Blue Devils know that they were no longer in control of the contest.Harvard...
...been more than a decade since Chile’s much-vaunted transition to democracy, but the presence—now the specter—of a man I had begun to think of as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named still haunts the country, perpetuating its bi-polar economic, political, and social environment. And despite the outpouring last Sunday, it is unlikely that his death will change anything...
...left the peaceful celebrations, the crowd begun its march to Chile’s seat of government, La Moneda. I returned home to TV coverage of tear gas and water-shooting tanks. The cops had been called out to protect La Moneda, the target of Pinochet’s bombs in 1973 and a Molotov cocktail on the anniversary of his coup last September. But despite descriptions in the Chilean media of the demonstrations as "massive," in a city of approximately six million people, TV stations estimated that less than 1,000 had gathered at La Moneda. The idea that...