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...failed to critically examine the Harvard-sponsored plan to relocate hundreds of residents to an eight-acre swath of housing to be built in North Allston. Now, with the City on the verge of approving the project—the stipulated community input period comes to a close next month, and only one public meeting has been held thus far about the most recent plan—Houghton and other neighborhood activists say their concerns about proposed housing density, open spaces, transportation, and retail opportunities can wait no longer. And as is common during planning discussions in Allston, blame quickly...
...following month, Smith called for a comprehensive “reshaping” of FAS to close the two-year $220 million deficit, $130 million of which would need to be addressed in the current fiscal year...
...some form of the same malaise? I do think this is a disease of affluence. The problems we're facing are not the problems faced by people in the subsistence society. Furthermore, they're not problems faced by societies that have become geographically nomadic. In areas where people remain close to where they were reared, I think you have a very different array of problems and concerns. Our material lives are better than any human beings have enjoyed at any point in history, but we're not as happy. We don't report the same measures of social connectedness...
...town hall meeting in April, Smith called for a broad-based restructuring of FAS to close a $220 million deficit over the next two years. In May, $77 million of possible savings proposed by FAS units were implemented in a sweeping round of cuts, which later included mass layoffs for staff. Smith charged six working groups with identifying the remaining $143 million. Those groups have seen varying degrees of progress since their creation...
...This is the latest move in a series of adjustments by the current administration as it reviews the detention policies of the previous administration. Already, the administration has announced its attention to close the current prison facilities at Bagram, to have them replaced by a newer, more humane complex, and to inform the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of the detainees being held...