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...booked into 67 cities, with 48 more on the waiting list. "Buildings Reborn" was organized by New Yorker Barbaralee Diamonstein, author of a handsome book by the same name (Harper & Row; $10) and herself a pioneer in the movement. Says Diamonstein, a former White House aide and a charter member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy: "Adaptive re-use [of old buildings] is moving from erratic initiative, a loft here, a firehouse there, to become a superb planning tool. It's no longer just a question of restoring a mansard roof or a neoclassic colonnade but of looking...
...fact, the NBER strives to remain research-oriented and discount a project's lack of immediate application. The federal government funds many of the bureau's projects through the National Science Foundation and through individual agencies for which NBER does work. But NBER's charter states, "the bureau makes no recommendations on legislation or policy, only determines economic factors with impartiality...
Radcliffe's charter of 1894 mandates that the corporation work to provide a Harvard education for undergraduate women. Although this objective was certainly top priority in the late 1800's, the charter also included a second objective: to promote higher education for women in general. As Radcliffe came close to achieving the first mandate, the second stirred from its over 50-year sleep. Subsequently, the Radcliffe Board has focused in the past 20 years on many programs designed primarily for women who have already received bachelors degrees...
...acrimonious debate over the shape of a new constitution, which would replace the British North America Act as the country's fundamental charter, centers on the distribution of power between the provinces and the federal government in Ottawa. Western Canadians feel that their interests have too long been ignored or overlooked by Ottawa and want a larger say in the nation's affairs. Overriding everything, of course, is the issue of separatism in Quebec, and Premier Levesque's plan to hold a referendum on a new form of "sovereignty-association" between his province and the rest...
...sorry, this is a charter," the student driver said as he slammed the Harvard shuttle bus door in the face of a couple of wet, Quad-bound students last week. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, could only smile faintly to his precious bus cargo, a group of influential Harvard alumni known as the University Resources Committee...