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...land swap agreement between Harvard and the Charlesview board of directors was intended to allow the University to consolidate its Allston land holdings while providing residents with much-desired new housing and amenities...
...feel very good about the current plan, and I think the residents do as well,” says Reverend Samuel M. Johnson, chair of the Charlesview board. “I think timing is more important than trying to tinker this or make it better...
...unit subsidized housing complex, owned by Charlesview, Inc., an interdenominational faith-based, non-profit organization, was constructed in 1971 but has not been adequately maintained. Yet initial offers from the University for a land swap were rebuffed by the board and the residents. Even when the board voted in 2006 to accept an offer from Harvard for 6.25 acres of land where the Brighton Mills shopping center is currently located, residents remained dissatisfied, staging protests and charging that they were being excluded from the decision-making process...
...what she says was a "broken system." In addition to hiring 37 mental-health professionals, the feisty Bronx attorney has significantly restricted the use of physical restraints, created a 24-hour hotline for kids to report abuses and reinvigorated oversight mechanisms, like an ombudsman and independent review board - which most observers (including the state inspector general) agree had been terribly neglected under her long-serving predecessor, John A. Johnson. (Reached at his home in Buffalo, Johnson declined to discuss his tenure or the DOJ report he claimed not to have heard about. "There's the truth, and then there...
...game that continues to be played in the same way as before. They're serious about changing the way that government works - and that's reflected in this Cabinet." Hatoyama has surrounded himself with key DPJ executives in what Okumura says could be the "strongest across the board" Cabinet ever. Key members are Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma, who will have to deal with tough issues that the Japanese public - aging and anxious about the future - want tackled quickly: the anemic economy and the mismanaged pension system run by the Health Ministry...