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Editor's note: In Monday's City Council meeting, Cambridge's ad hoc committee on the CASPAR shelter announced a proposal that MIT promised to accept: The university would agree to lease three of the four streets it demanded to own, if the city would give MIT the fourth to keep. Next week, the Council will meet to discuss this proposal...
When MIT proposed a deal with the city earlier this month, offering the CASPAR homeless shelter a piece of university land, we were a little suspicious. MIT has fought for more than five months to get the shelter off their property and recent weeks have seen MIT brazenly attempting to spin some good PR out of their selfish proposal. It turns out that we, and the rest of the city, had good reason to worry...
...would renovate the shelter, which now consists on university property, at a price of $1.5 million. The shelter now consists of two dilapidated trailers, which fill to capacity almost every night. MIT would give the shelter to the city for 40 years, and the city would lease it to CASPAR for a dollar a year. In return--and this is the catch--MIT would receive four city-owned streets near its campus. Permanently...
...George Bush on Christmas Eve, Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh has found himself largely reduced to shouting -- loudly. In his latest report to Congress, Walsh continued to beat the drums. He directly accused the former President of committing a "grave disservice" to the country by shielding former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from prosecution, and he suggested that Bush may have done so to avoid answering, as a defense witness, "searching questions" about his own role in the scandal...
...council is considering sale of the streets on the MIT campus to compensate for renovating CASPAR's site...