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...safety and amenity of pedestrian movement across the river (including, very likely, a new pedestrian bridge), and the Staff might have added the need for direct pedestrian access from any new undergraduate houses to the riverfront as well. These are indeed critical planning and design issues, but to dismiss out of hand the potential benefits of an undergraduate presence in Allston—both to the particular students who may live there and the Harvard more generally of future generations—seems extraordinarily premature...
Grand Buffet would be fairly easy to dismiss if they hailed from anywhere other than Pittsburgh. After all, non sequitur rapping over cheesy beats is often the province of poseurs and hipsters, but the duo’s humble Rust Belt origins attest to a refreshingly earnest approach. On their third independently-released album, the lyrical gimmicks are nothing if not inventive—especially when rapping about early-bird buffet beatdowns on “The Old Folk Smashers.” Though neither Grape-a-Don nor Lord Grunge can turn a phrase as deftly...
While quick to dismiss questions about whether the high expectations would leave his team vulnerable to a fall, Mazzoleni stressed that preseason polls tell very little about a team’s success once the season starts...
...Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) ruled on Sept. 9 to dismiss the lawsuit of former Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz...
Some of the councillors, in particular councillors Brian Murphy ’86-’87 and David P. Maher, who co-chair the ordinance committee—which typically hammers out compromises on zoning and other legislation—were not as quick to dismiss Harvard’s proposals...