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Earlier this month, Boston City Councillor-at-large Felix Arroyo introduced a law that would require city council approval before a university could purchase new land in Boston...
...ordinance makes council approval contingent upon the universities making payments equalling or exceeding the value of the property taxes the city would lose due to ownership by a non-profit organization...
Arroyo said he thinks that redistributing some planning powers from the BRA to the council will give Bostonians a more active role in universities’ expansion processes...
...first public meeting with undergraduates since she was named president-elect, Drew G. Faust pledged last night to reexamine Harvard’s academic calendar and consider ways of improving interaction between students and professors.For most of the 70-minute meeting with the Undergraduate Council, however, Faust nodded frequently and appeared to absorb the concerns of the elected representatives of Harvard’s roughly 6,500 undergraduates. Faust has never headed an institution with a student population in her professional career.The topics ranged from postseason Ivy League football competition to environmental sustainability.Undergraduate Council members raised concerns about the effect...
...interest/cultural identity juggernaut: China. Gone are the days of Sino-Russian conflicts over their 1000-mile border. Russia’s arms industry has been brought back to life by Chinese purchases, and China is an ever-growing customer for Russia’s natural resources. As a Security Council tandem, Russia and China can resist Western pressure on all but the most uncontroversial issues. For instance, what serious prospect is there for Security Council action on Iran’s nuclear program since Russia is building Iran’s nuclear power plant and China has signed...