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This week's meeting of the Allston Civic Association was the first opportunity the community had to respond to Harvard's surprise announcement two weeks ago that between 1988 and 1994 it had secretly purchased 52.6 acres in the blue-collar neighborhood across the river...
...Roswell Chamber of Commerce, speaking with the easygoing charm and booster's earnestness one expects in a Southwestern city father. He is referring to next month's three-day gala marking the golden anniversary of the alleged crash in 1947 of a flying saucer near Roswell. It is a civic distinction that was long ignored by most Roswellians--Moore, for one, says she never heard of it while growing up--until a recent surge of national interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, both "real" and fictive, convinced locals that rather than be ashamed of their heritage, they might instead make some money...
...moviemakers looking for viewers and magazines for readers: hardly a sliver of society is exempt from the need to understand and, indeed, cater to this generation. Yet Gen X has proved irritatingly contrarian. "The soul of Gen X is amorphous, intangible, elusive," says Richard Thau, 32, who heads the civic group Third Millennium. "That's why I like the term X: fill in the blanks...
Priscilla J. McMillan, a local civic activist, says Harvard's physical size and enormous wealth create an imbalance in the city...
...world's most fabulously rich university," says R. Philip Dowds, former president of Cambridge's Civic Association and founder and former president of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhoods...