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...most famous threat took place when Vellucci, peeved at Harvard's reluctance to help solve the city's parking problem, announced a plan to purchase Harvard Yard by eminent domain and pave it over...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: If It's Town vs. Gown, Vellucci is There | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...legal problems that Emerson encountered in trying to move to Lawrence remain, but city officials said they were confident that the city would win its case against private owners who claim that the law of eminent domain does not apply to the city's attempt to take their land for public...

Author: By Garth R. Wiens, | Title: Emerson Decides on Lawrence, Again | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

After months of frustration over the question of eminent domain, Emerson President Allen E. Koenig gave Lawrence a September deadline to settle out of court with the owners of the 85-acre site on the Merrimack River, or else the school would drop the plan...

Author: By Garth R. Wiens, | Title: Emerson Decides on Lawrence, Again | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

Aquino immediately set about personally surveying her domain. Amid threats of imminent coups and assassinations, she visited Davao City on the strife- torn island of Mindanao. By week's end the police were tearing down strike barricades. The moves are proving to be popular, so much so that even Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, has begun to soften his criticism of her leadership. Earlier, Laurel admitted there was a tactical alliance between some of his supporters and those of Aquino's archrival, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. After the President's speech, Laurel said his differences with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Mean Momma | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, it seems that an archaic rule prevents drunken Americans from dropping in on royalty. Thinking quickly, I don a fake mustache, cowboy hat, and Texas accent, and pretend to be an oil millionaire interested in paying cash for the domain of Scotland. I am courteously ushered...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Windsor War | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

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