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...last time Harvard exercised its right to require a seven-vote majority was in 1984, when it teamed with MIT to block a linkage proposal aimed at forcing developers to build more affordable housing in Cambridge...
...Harvard has to grow and build to support its teaching and research," she said. "What they build, which, importantly, is non-profit, parallels its abilities to directly support the University staff and students, to be competitive...
What to do? Like other experts, the task force, which was set up last September at the request of the Senate's housing subcommittee, concluded that the only answer is building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional...
...whether to amend or remove from the university's freshman Western culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon. But revisionists, including many blacks, Hispanics and women, want to build a new, theme-based program rather too cleverly called CIV (short for Culture, Ideas and Values...
...Attorney General hangs tough despite growing concern about his conduct among his aides and in Congress. Ethical questions aside, a special prosecutor sees no indictable offense. -- A congressional task force points to an alarming shortage of housing and pleads for federal dollars to build more. -- The Reagans lease a $2.5 million retirement home in posh...