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Holiday headaches may be in store for two anonymous donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window...
...through Ticketmaster. $15 in advance, $18 date of show. (PRC)Slim Cessna’s Auto Club with Wrong Reasons, Hank Crane, and Johnny Carlevale & The Broken Rhythm Boys. Wrong Reasons will play their country, blues, and rock-’n’-roll at 9:15 p.m., Boston-area band Hank Crane will perform at 10:15, and Johnny Carlevale & The Broken Rhythm Boys will showcase their “rhythm and roots” act at 11:15, all before Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, with a new live two-disc set, takes the stage...
...problem is simple: The seminar consisted of a long speech given by the owner of a Boston-area sex shop. It was a great opportunity for the woman to promote her products and their use to a large audience of undergraduates who had volunteered to dedicate two hours to listening. Free samples of her merchandise were handed out, their use explained in detail. Given that the shop owner was female, it was presumably easy for those involved to reassure themselves that she was there to share new modes of personal expression. Some embarrassment about the fact that the speaker...
...peer institutions, how to count the value of its benefits package, and how Harvard is doing in meeting related labor goals. According to Peter S. Rider, who is leading contract negotiations on behalf of the janitors, the two parties continue to disagree about what constitutes a fair wage for Boston-area workers.The Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), a student activist organization that says it represents the demands of the workers, has pushed for a $20-per-hour wage plus benefits for all of Harvard’s custodial employees.Union representatives criticized Harvard’s notion of fairness...
...there are lots of in-kind and grant donations from others.”The marsh is a rare phenomenon in the highly developed Boston area, a pocket of nature that has survived on the borders of Cambridge and Belmont. Up to 20,000 birds nest in the area at a time. Mass said both the forest and swamp were unusual and needed to be preserved. “This is a unique Boston-area forest as it is mainly silver maple,” she said. “[It and the marsh] are critical and rare habitats...