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...community's concerns about preservation at Harvard go back many years. The Historical Commission, a municipal agency, was established over twenty years ago in part to administer an historic district that included, with Harvard's consent, a portion of the Old Yard. Over the years that district has been expanded, but never over the objections of the University. The Commission has reviewed many Harvard proposals for new construction and alterations in the district, and while we may have occasionally debated the color of shutters we have more than served to prevent or modify ill-considered schemes that might best...
...Supreme Court ruling, in Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 vs. Stotts, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was intended to rectify past discrimination only against particular individuals, not entire classes. Justice had argued for that interpretation; it will now use the decision to ask courts to modify orders and consent decrees if cities, counties and states refuse to delete quota provisions...
...directors work with the principal of the King School John Caulfield, who is responsible for finding children to participate in the program and getting their parents consent...
Because sex is one subject on which everybody is an expert, Landers' findings sparked cheers and sneers among sexologists, sex therapists, television commentators, newspaper columnists, and just about every red-blooded man and woman above the age of consent. Some called her survey biased, unscientific and even dangerous; others insisted it is right on target...
After six years of litigation, McGowan won in 1980 a judgment of $1.8 billion in damages, the largest in history, and the Government's antitrust action ended in a consent decree that last year splintered the telephone monopoly into seven regional shards. Is McGowan satisfied? Not a chance. There is a new trial scheduled this spring on the amount of damages, and McGowan plans to argue that the size of his original claim against AT&T was based on a miscalculation; that AT&T really should pay him not $1.8 billion but $5.8 billion...