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Countering the critics, China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted that Beijing "will ensure the freedom and the rights of the foreign news media and foreign financial-information agencies." But alarm bells are nonetheless sounding in foreign boardrooms. In the past few months, Beijing has issued several regulations and is drafting...
Riley emphasized that it was too soon to say exactly how much the exchange of the bells will cost—since no proposals have been solicited yet—but he said that previous estimates of approximately $1 million were probably correct.
Seventeen of Harvard’s Russian bells hang in the Lowell belltower; the other sits atop the Business School’s Baker Library. They are more than 100 years old, with one dating back to the 17th century, according to the Lowell House website.
After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells.
Aside from being home to one of the few sets of Russian bells that survived Stalin’s regime, the Lowell belltower is also known for hosting raucous parties that attract students from across the campus.