Word: columbia
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Except for the force many residents would name: the mayor himself. For months he snubbed the board, refused to provide it with basic financial data and called allegations of featherbedding a "big lie." He joined a protest by students at the University of the District of Columbia, who tied up traffic on Connecticut Avenue for 14 hours after hearing that their funds might be cut. His standing fell last week when it was disclosed that he had had a $20,000 security fence built around the mayor's residence under a no-bid contract by a former member...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, it will be forced to do without Hogan, the team's number-one starter, for the weekend. Hogan has been suffering from tendinitis in his throwing shoulder ever since he led Harvard to a 3-1 victory over Columbia two weeks...
David, who graduated from Columbia University in 1970 with a degree in English, is a writer too, but of a different temper. In recent years he has produced stories and poems. Stuffed somewhere in a drawer, say friends, is an unpublished novel about baseball. "He's a man of few words," says Mary Ann Welch, a friend in Schenectady. "So it all comes out in his writing, very detailed and descriptive...
...even credited with first calling them "malls"). But he soon grew disenchanted with suburban sprawl and the unplanned chaos of most cities--"formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land." His solution was the planned city of Columbia, Maryland, built on 14,000 acres of farmland he had acquired. Instead of impersonal malls and isolated housing developments, the town (current population 84,000) has nine village centers, 78 miles of foot and bike paths and three lakes. But for Rouse, an advocate of integration and open housing, Columbia's finest achievement...
Rouse, who lived with his second wife in a lakeside house in Columbia, next turned to the aging inner city for a new and profitable crusade. In Boston he took over three run-down 150-year-old buildings and turned them into a lively complex of offices, retail shops, food stalls and restaurants. Within four years of its opening in 1976, Faneuil Hall was drawing 15 million visitors annually. It inspired Rouse to try a similar restoration job at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Harborplace, which opened in 1980, had its detractors (a critic called it "Atlantic City's boardwalk with...