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About 20 tenants filed an official complaint with the rent control board, charging that Harvard had violated Cambridge's strict removal ordinance. Shortly afterwards, according to testimony by Lorraine Wade, Harvard Real Estate tenant relations director, the University decided to file a petition of its own--a request for an exemption from the removal ordinance in order to perform a $2.5 million renovation on the building...
...rankles. With FDR, it was the condition of the paths between buildings on the campus. They were often, in a word, muddy, and Roosevelt made frequent mention of that fact in the columns of The Crimson. He began his campaign for board sidewalks in early January: "Many years of complaint and 'Lampoon' caricatures have not succeeded in materially improving the condition of the paths in the weather that is generally associated with Cambridge in winter, and wide boardwalks seem still to be the only solution." Apparently his words fell on deaf ears, for only three weeks later...
...rejection, a fear of love. "I was taught all the common Christian virtues," he recalls, "like abstinence, renunciation, docility, patience, and, most important of all, a clear denial of almost all aspects of life. In other words, I was taught not to enjoy life but to bear it without complaint, not to be sinful but to be frustrated ... That is my life. I grew up in the best and most intact and most harmonious and most sterile and most hypocritical of all worlds...
...want to." Yet death is democratic. Eight-year-old Jonathan lives in a big house on the best side of town, and until recently the closest he came to danger was hearing a big boom one night and having a bad dream about it. The major complaint in his stately neighborhood was the stink from the nearby offal factory. Now the complaint is more topical. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert Bradford, M.P, was shot to death in a suburban community center not far from where Jonathan lives. Bradford's daughter Claire, 7, is Jonathan's playmate. When...
...specifics of the proposed agreement. Negotiators for the tenants and the developer, Housing Associates of Cambridge, have said in the past, however, that under the proposed settlement tenants would be paid a relocation fee if they agreed to move out of the building and drop their rent control board complaint against the University...