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...frescoes), eaten corn or pota toes or runner beans, grown a sunflower or tasted a cultivated strawberry. The imagined landscapes were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...
Once we got there, we were all eager to shed our virginity like an embarrassing training bra that had grown too tight. For some of us it took two years, although one of my friends whispered the news to me triumphantly as soon as I walked in the door to her room freshman week. Another friend got herself very deliberately drunk and deflowered in the course of one afternoon after a particularly grueling math exam. To this day she refers to the experience as "a clinical procedure." But I think in each case the overwhelming emotion was relief, tinged with...
...COME as a surprise today if the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) gives Harvard permission to build its $56 million power plant near the Medical School in Boston. Harvard waded through years of negotiations, hearings, and applications simply to get to the point where the BRA would say yes to its plant...
What will be a surprise, however, is that the BRA is in effect saying no to Boston Edison, something akin to handing down a trust busting order to a monopoly...
...hospitals than are currently in the area. And, despite written pledges against expansion, these residents believe that their homes would have to go if more institutions were to come to the area. And it is these people, trapped in Mission Hill, who stand to lose the most from the BRA's decision to let Harvard build its power plant...