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GLADWELL: One of the most striking things in observing the evolution of American society is the rise of travel. If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I would say the rise of JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. They have allowed us all to construct new geographical identities for ourselves. Many working people today travel who never could have in the past, for meetings and conferences and all kinds of things, and this is creating another identity for them...
GLADWELL: It is because it allows us to construct new realities and identities for ourselves that break out of our old sense of place...
...neighborhood activists about the size and location of the complex. In his remarks, Summers acknowledged that the project had faced “a certain amount of political dust and heat.”Harvard and the community also sparred over the University’s failed plans to construct a tunnel under Cambridge Street which would link the two main CGIS buildings. The city had demanded $10 million in compensation from the University, while Harvard offered a package administrators valued at about $5 million. After a year of negotiations, Harvard scrapped the plan in 2003.In an interview, Knafel said...
...site of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston, the apartments’ owners said in a statement yesterday that they were seriously considering opposing the move of the 213-unit complex. For nearly three years, Harvard and the Charlesview Board of Directors have discussed an arrangement in which Harvard would construct a new building for Charlesview residents elsewhere, in exchange for Charlesview’s current site at the corner of North Harvard St. and Western Ave. The land has been touted as a space for either graduate school buildings or a cultural facility in Harvard’s future campus...
...distinct bodies, in this case only one: a corporeal body. The offspring, as its organic essence is generated through the raped body, is coded by feminine violation and hence ‘marked’ or ‘inscribed,’ if you will, with the very constructed-ness of gender.”Haraway: “Oh I certainly will construct your gender, you tired old feminist monkey. Why don’t we take this outside and my half-machine, half-kangaroo bodyguards will code your body ambiguous, bitch.”The upcoming remake...