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...many Europeans, this war looks like U.S. imperialism. And hypocrisy: they don't see why diplomacy can deal with North Korea's nuclear-weapons program but not with Iraq's, or why U.N. resolutions should be enforced on Iraq but not on Israel. That makes even historic allies dig in their heels. Last fall's protracted struggle to negotiate U.N. Resolution 1441 was not just about Iraq, said a participating diplomat, but also about U.S. power in the world. Europeans, says Stephane Rozes, director of France's CSA polling firm, "see the Americans harnessing their superpower status...
After nearly a full year of negotiations, Harvard has given up its fight to dig a tunnel beneath a city street, telling neighbors in a letter that the city’s demands put a ten-million dollar price tag on a “project assessed at less than $280,000” and were not “within reason...
Since Harvard had received every other required permit for the CGIS before it tried to clear the final hurdle—the council’s approval to dig under Cambridge Street—construction for the Faculty’s most pressing building project can now go ahead unhindered...
...long as these considerations remain at the forefront of planners’ minds, the Big Dig can only help Boston. Harvard students who saved a few minutes of travel time returning from intersession can be thankful to the Massachusetts politicians and the legions of construction workers who are finally beginning to finish digging...
...Turnpike’s decision to auction off the heavily encumbered land comes in the midst of a $2.2 billion cost overrun on their Central Artery/Tunnel Project, the centerpiece of the city’s Big Dig and the largest highway construction project in American history...