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...being clear about whether it is going to submit its final master plan to the city in a few months. Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger, who has been involved in Allston planning in the past, said it was natural that the expansion project bear some of the brunt of the current financial stress on Harvard. “I’m not surprised that this is emerging as an idea,” Krieger said. “I don’t see it as a crisis at the moment for Allston...
...Rajasthan and the vast central state of Madhya Pradesh. Defeats for the ruling party now would augur poorly for general elections, to be held next May. "We may take a beating," says Congress Member of Parliament Milind Deora, who represents the affluent South Mumbai constituency, which bore the brunt of the terrorist attacks last week. The ruling party replaced outgoing Home Minister Patil with the much-respected Finance Minister P. Chidambaran. But like the government's proposal on Monday to recruit 500 new commandos to an élite counterterrorism unit, the reshuffle seems a little too late...
...Maybe that day is tomorrow, and maybe it’s a few months from now.”These freshmen will push Amaker to make some tough decisions this year, and if last year is a harbinger of things to come, it will be Housman bearing the brunt of it. Over the course of the 2007-08 season, Amaker sat his point guard from the starting lineup seven times. After a string of standout performances his sophomore year, it was a shock not to see him on the floor.“I’m known...
...windows lining the streets of Harvard Square, the navy signs supporting “McCain-Palin” are most likely to catch the eye of an average Cantabrigian. In Cambridge, McCain is lemonade on a glacial morning or hot chocolate on a scorching summer afternoon. McCain is the brunt of Al Gore’s jokes and professorial grievances. McCain is the underdog, despite his policies that boost the job market, strengthen American independence, and grant our generation a promising future...
Polluters such as coal power plants and automobiles have shouldered the brunt of the attention on climate change. It helps that you can actually see them spewing black exhaust. But people often forget that when they plug in their home electronics - whether it's a jumbo flat-screen TV or an iPod - the electricity that juices those devices has a carbon footprint too. As the amount of electronics in our homes continues to increase - half of American households now own three TVs, up from 11% in 1975 - it becomes more and more important that they are energy efficient. Ditto...