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...think we’re doing really well with the BRA here, in large part because Mike [Glavin, the BRA’s deputy director for institutional development], is steering the process,” said Tim McHale, a Brighton resident of over three decades. “He’s between a rock and a hard place, Harvard and the City and us, but we think he’s doing a really great...
...Harvard Allston Task Force meeting in late March, BRA Chief Planner Kairos Shen committed to revitalizing the planning process for relocating the Charlesview Apartments and developing the Holton Street Corridor—two projects related to Harvard’s expansion that have been sidelined in recent months due to the focus on the Science Complex...
...graduate, said that while he would never categorically criticize the BRA’s record, he does see the agency as excessively “linked to politics.” To make development a more “community-driven process,” he said that the BRA should be restructured—perhaps by separating the agency’s planning and development functions—in order to ensure that the voices of community members and developers are balanced...
...Fund will “seed some very good ideas” while strengthening existing community projects. According to Michael F. Glavin, the BRA’s deputy director for institutional development, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino appointed a seven-member advisory committee to review and recommend proposals for BRA approval. The committee, which includes three members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, will be accepting grant proposals for the upcoming year through April 30. “The mayor wanted to have other faces, other names, and other perspectives,” Glavin said, explaining why the fund...
...cover of Rolling Stone has afforded the means for countless pop-culture princesses to bridge the virgin-whore divide and construct new identities as promiscuous sex symbols. Take the 1999 cover of Britney Spears: Clad in a black push-up bra and polka-dotted panties, her lips suggestively apart and her right index finger gesturing toward her privates, the singer exudes mature sexuality; at the same time, her male companion—a stuffed Tinky-Winky—and her ostensible engagement in frivolous girl-talk affirm her status as an adolescent rendered sexually unattainable by both law and taboo...