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...property during the nineties, the University led by President Drew G. Faust has been extremely receptive to the community’s needs and desires. In a land-swap deal with the owners of the Charlesview apartments, a low-income housing complex that sits on a plot of land central to the development project, Harvard has demonstrated that it had come full circle in its dealing with Allston residents—as part of the deal, Harvard agreed to erect highly subsidized replacement housing units nearby...
...hole-in-one. The next day, the team was able to coast to the previously elusive title. Balmert finished the tournament in the runner-up position, with Sheldon in third and Hazlett fifth. Harvard closed its season by flying to Austin, Texas to play in the NCAA Central Regional Championships. Although the Crimson finished in 19th, it got to face some of the best teams in the country. “It’s been great being here for four years and seeing the team progress so much,” Hazlett said. “The team dynamic...
...short months later, it was revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had destroyed footage of Al-Qaeda operatives being tortured; again, the language of “homeland security” was indignantly invoked to conceal a program of deception and overreach. The sitting administration will cede nothing on the matter of torture, and should be regarded as complicit—from bottom to very top—in apparent violations of the Geneva Convention and any acceptable standard for the self-professed champion of liberty...
...have some complaints about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet we also realize that without the FDA medicine might have been nothing but leeches and placebo–isn’t it time to take the same systematic approach to economic policies that are so central to our society...
...troubled. A coalition of farmers and farm owners has staged disruptive demonstrations against the President and her policies for 80 days now, garnering a large degree of public support, fueled largely by frustration at the government's inability to deal with inflation. Says Ricardo Gomez, a farmer from the central province of Cordoba: "Cristina projected the promise that she could continue to provide the economic bonanza while distancing herself from Kirchner's authoritarian streak, but she turned out to be even tougher than her husband." Her government has called the farmers "oligarchs" who wish to throw her out of office...