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...University has said that it will not sell the land unless Con Ed confronts it with a credible threat of legal action to take the land be emminent domain...
...phrase "banned in Boston" has been a titillating endorsement of smut for generations. Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down all the Commonwealth's obscenity laws as unconstitutionally vague, leaving literally nothing taboo in Cotton Mather's old domain. To fill the moral vacuum, the Massachusetts legislature's joint judiciary committee drew up a bill so graphic that when it was read aloud on the house floor by Representative Barney Frank, spectators in the gallery gasped...
...then there were the problems Pei encountered with the Christian Science Center. Pei put his classically-oriented partner, Aldo Cussutta--who has since left the firm and moved upstairs from Pei's ninth floor domain at 600 Madison Ave.--as the head of the design team. Although Cussatta "quite typically began examining the potentials of this project in the broadest urban contexts," according to a March 1973 Architecture Plus article, and though the sprawling center was in perfect harmony with Pei's clients, the building's neighbors and the site's original occupants weren't too happy about leaving...
Included in his retailing domain are more than 400 department and specialty stores, gift and book shops. Their profitability is due largely to Hawley's willingness to let his company's acquisitions maintain their separate personalities. "The best way for Neiman-Marcus to survive," he says, "is to let Stanley Marcus run it." Hawley is now negotiating to buy 20% of Britain's House of Fraser Ltd., owner of the prestigious Harrods of London and 90 other United Kingdom stores. The purchase will be a cornerstone of Hawley's plans to boost company profits ($39.8 million...
...CHUL later discussed questions concerning its domain, structure, role and effectiveness in the Harvard community