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...effort to keep the neighborhood the waythey want it, area residents formed the BankStreet Neighborhood Association last year inresponse to Harvard's proposal to build anotherdormitory at 10 Mt. Auburn St. The group managedto stall Harvard's plans to demolish a 92-year-oldhotel at the site and eventually convinced theUniversity to incorporate the turreted structureinto its overall project...
...Neighbors say that Marlene's parents, now in their 70s, dread the possible reopening of the case. They still reside in Hanford, though the house they lived in at the time of their daughter's death has long since been torn down. The memories have been harder to demolish. "The sad thing is that it keeps coming back," says Marlene's brother Walter Jr. "We have not been allowed the time to heal." And the end is still not in sight...
Yesterday, a packed crowed of 70 was on hand to watch the Crimson--playing without the services of its regular number-two player, Ingrid Boyum--demolish the Tigers...
Officials of the residence later disclosed that outside panels of the 2,800-sq.-ft. auditorium's corrugated-metal roof had been removed as part of a repair program and that rain had weakened the ceiling underneath. A plan to demolish the old structure had been postponed because of a shortage of funds. Two engineers supervising the repair work were suspended. The President of Bangladesh, Lieut. General H.M. Ershad, appointed a commission to investigate...
Like other people who are humiliated and threatened, we talk now mostly about retribution. Washington echoes the brave calls of armchair generals from the provinces who would devastate the Bekaa Valley or demolish the Beirut airport or launch a search-and-destroy mission in the city. Retaliation may have its place when, in that rare instance, terrorists separate themselves from the fabric of innocent society. The better answer lies in every American's awareness and understanding that terrorism must be met on its own terms...