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...Weslowski, director of the state historical commission, said yesterday that even with the law, the University may still need approval from the Department of the Interior to renovate or demolish the buildings nominated for the list...
There is yet another question. In the past few years, the U.S. side-let us put it that way-has been actively trying to demolish the edifice of American-Soviet economic relations, the edifice that was erected by both sides under the predecessors of today's President. It is easy and irresponsible to destroy all this. But it will take much time to restore it. To sow enmity between our nations means resorting to methods that harm not the Soviet Union but the prestige of those who use such methods...
...representatives argued that Harvard had not been given enough time to review the nominations, the real motivation for Harvard's opposition was more complex. Should the buildings be placed on the federal register, the University would have to submit to federal review before using government money to renovate or demolish any of the structures...
Despite a fiery presentation from Fogg Museum director Seymour Slive, the commission members could not understand why the University needed to demolish a century-old house to make room for the museum's expansion. So they refused to grant a demolition permit...
...highly-skilled agent provocateur, as when she goes undercover to write a piece on a New York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist...