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...campus. This shuttle route will now terminate at the end of John F. Kennedy Street—near Citizens Bank—instead of at Johnston Gate. The upcoming changes to the Johnston Gate and Garden Street stops are part of the ongoing Harvard Square Improvement Project, a multimillion dollar effort by the City of Cambridge and the University to improve Harvard Square and make it more pedestrian-friendly. The 18-month campaign, begun in April 2005, is being funded by a $5.5 million contribution from the city and a $1.3 million contribution from the University. The project seeks...
...appreciate about a place, and Northern California’s patent wine snobbery sends me into epicurean revelry. Don’t get me wrong: I love Cambridge. But let’s face it, the closest an average Harvard student gets to enjoying wine is guzzling a seven-dollar magnum of Yellowtail, which might as well be packaged in a box with a plastic pour spout...
...Guardsmen patrolling the border. Schwarzenegger also extended a loan to fund stem cell research in the state following a Bush veto of a federal funding bill. Additionally, he has worked with the Democratic-controlled legislature to get four bond proposals on the fall ballot intended to finance his multibillion-dollar infrastructure overhaul plan. Then there was the surprise windfall: an unexpected spike in tax revenues from the improving state economy allowed him to repay money to schools that he had borrowed to help balance the budget...
...considered to be a model remote community. Assorted ministers and politicians from all over the nation have come here to see good news in the making-and, if you look on the walls of the administrative offices, to be photographed. Plans are afoot to capture more of the tourist dollar, through art and guided tours of Gooniyandi country. "The demise of trad-itional communities is due to structures, such as the [defunct] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle. "It's far better now that the money...
...Lamont, the Democratic challenger who faces off against incumbent Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's Connecticut primary, has run into another problem with his multimillion-dollar stock portfolio. Last spring the anti-war candidate had to deal with revelations that he owned up to $50,000 worth of stock in Halliburton, the services giant that has been at the center of controversy over its lucrative post-war contracts in Iraq. And now, only a day after he took Wal-Mart to task at a campaign stop in Bridgeport, a review of his personal financial disclosure forms has revealed that he owns...