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...Rushdie’s “Haroun,” a 1990 children’s novel, the title character Haroun enters a bus depot and passes by several admonitions written on the walls surrounding the depot’s courtyard. Likewise, in Viswanathan’s novel, the protagonist helps another student place posters on a wall that discourage drug and alcohol...
...student to call the police. “I’d say pretty much all the students were on the football team,” Kelly said of the 30-some present at the scene. The football team’s annual barbecue was held in the Currier courtyard Saturday night. Many people were carrying kegs or beer-pong tables, Kelly said. The shuttle services dispatcher on duty Sunday night said he was unable to identify the driver involved, and the operations manager of Harvard Passanger Transport was unavailable for comment. The Harvard University Football Office could...
...than $7 million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check out when the Courtyard started welcoming guests last year: in 2005 the cows chewed some $58,000 off the hotel...
More than 20 student groups and neighborhood organizations transformed Winthrop’s courtyard Saturday into a celebration of Earth Day. Everyone from the Harvard Cycling Team to student representatives of the Environmental Science and Public Policy concentration set up booths to welcome both current students and prefrosh attendees. “It’s really exciting to see all the student groups out here celebrating environmental awareness and involvement,” said Faon M. O’Connor ’08, co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC). Neighborhood establishments such...
...HSDF vocally supported withholding the license for even less convincing reasons—HSDF felt the Square already had an adequate number of restaurants selling liquor. Legal Seafoods’ entrance into the Charles Hotel was protested because of its expansion and encroachment into the public courtyard, a seemingly slight problem for a space already encased by a hotel...