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...Cambridge City Council voted last night to take three East Cambridge properties by eminent domain, a move that will help clear the way for a major office, hotel retail and park complex in the area...
Asking Bok to "take firm action in those areas of Third World concern which are your sole domain," Jane Bock '81, president of the Asian American Students Association, and Lydia P. Jackson '32 president of the Black Students Association, said in the letter they "urge that all official consideration" of a Third World center be delayed until the committee completes its work...
This stereotypical strong man is taught to be the pillar upon which every woman leans. He feels as though women are his property. This insidious notion of male possession of women limits a woman's domain to that area determined and approved by her male owner. Thus many men take offense to a rape not because the woman is in pain but because his property is damaged goods. His woman is dirty; his ability to protect her has been challenged and found lacking. Furthermore, when a man views women as powerless property, he directly curtails the quality he can achieve...
...polls show Proposition 2 1/2 will likely pass, barring a last minute organizational jihad from the public employee's unions. Backed by the state's businessmen, especially the industrial aristocrats who rule the fabled domain of High Tech, the 2 1/2 campaign has promised taxpayers cash in their pockets and assured local residents that new industry will flood in once taxes fall. But Wheaton's data--and that of most others who have studied the question--show that "tax differences between metropolitan areas have no measurable impact on industrial development." Instead, the MIT professor writes, the level of demand...
...enlisting in a new confederacy of Southern letters, one that would rapidly push her forward as a standard bearer. She was intent on simply getting down imaginatively what she saw and heard around her. This volume is a reminder of how thoroughly her personal visions have entered the public domain...