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With officials in Boston debating a plan proposed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino to relocate City Hall to the South Boston waterfront, City Council President Michael F. Flaherty presented a measure last week that would require a more exhaustive study of the plan and delay the project...
...Crimson dropped the opening doubles point, with Brook and Curto falling at second doubles, 8-0. Litvak and Mukundan, teaming up for the first time this spring, trailed 5-0 early in their match. They rallied, but ultimately fell short, losing 8-5. Following a rain delay, the singles matches were all Miami. Litvak fell to No. 34 Audrey Bananada, 6-2, 6-4, in the top spot. “I was really upset,” Litvak said. “I could have played much better. I didn’t feel my tennis was up where...
Houses will appoint resident tutors to advise first-semester sophomores under a revamped advising program announced by the College last month.The move resulted from the college’s decision to delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year, leaving current freshmen without departmental advisers come September.But this plan was only one of several considered by the Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling, and a draft report obtained by The Crimson outlines some potential concerns that the committee expressed about that model.The report says advising could vary significantly between Houses, resident deans may be overburdened with other responsibilities...
...growing number of Hong Kong people feel the time for full democracy is already long past, and that any attempt to delay it is demeaning. Earlier this month, a group of democrats led by Chan unveiled a compromise proposal that would gradually implement universal suffrage. It's hardly a radical blueprint, and it dovetails with Tsang's own target of achieving full democracy by 2012, when his new five-year term will end. The response out of Beijing to Chan's plan, however, was anything but welcoming. Chen Zuo'er, the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs...
...police investigation were released in December. The extra six months would be "a pebble on the beach" compared with the 10 years everyone has been waiting for an inquest, Mansfield said. But Butler-Sloss wasn't swayed. "I would be very sad if I was obliged to delay the start of the main proceedings for another six months," she said. "I feel that would be very, very hard on the families...