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Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. Clarinetist William Lipscomb, Cellist Poppy Dorsam and pianist Rowland Sturges will perform chamber music by Beethoven and Brahms. Blacksmith House, Spiegel Performance Hall, 56 Brattle St., 3:15 p.m. Free...
...council asked City Manager Robert W. Healy and the Chamber of Commerce to work together to produce a plan for public toilets in Harvard and Central Squares...
Maybe plumbing, not biology, is destiny. More than 70 years after women won the vote, the U.S. Senate chamber still has no women's bathroom. Even the Democratic cloakroom in the House has no ladies' room, leaving female Representatives with a hike to the Congressional Women's Reading Room, where there are all of three toilets. Future archaeologists, studying the pipes and bathroom fixtures of Capitol Hill, may conclude that late-20th century America was a fortress of patriarchy on a par with Saudi Arabia...
...jail. This has heightened the fear among bankers and board directors, as well as among their accountants and attorneys, that they could face criminal liability if a loan goes bad and imperils the bank. "There is a real fear among lenders," says Lawrence Hunter, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "that a bad business decision in this day and age stands the risk of becoming criminal activity...
...Charpak, 68, son of Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...