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...task force member John Bruno expressed the concern that the meetings have not contributed significantly to altering the Draft Project Impact Report (DPIR) to suit the needs of the community...
...Draft Project Impact Report anticipates that the first floor will include 6,000 square feet of retail space, a conference room, an atrium, an outdoor space that may be turned into an eating space if one of the retail spaces is rented out to a restaurant or cafe, and a daycare center that will accommodate around 70 children. Ten to 15 percent of the children will come from the community, and the rest will be children of Harvard affiliates...
...another requires that congressional travel paid for by outside groups be posted on the Internet. One of the most significant measures forces lawmakers to report all lobbyist-bundled contributions that total more than $15,000 every six months. While it is an admittedly weaker standard than a former draft, which would have placed the threshold at a mere $5,000, it's more than the status quo, which presently does not require any bundling disclosure...
According to the Draft Project Impact Report, Harvard has petitioned the city to get rid of about 50 parking spaces along Western Avenue to make way for the trucks that will carry away the soil from the excavation on the construction site. Approximately 2,000 cubic yards per day will be removed, which will require between 100 and 150 trucks to come to the site daily, depending on the remoteness of the dump site that the contractors will eventually pick...
...doesn't make military or economic sense to launch the draft, what about the notion of fairness? Critics have claimed that minorities are over-represented in the all-volunteer military because they have fewer options in the civilian world. The CBO disputes that, saying that "members of the armed forces are racially and ethnically diverse." African Americans accounted for 13% of active-duty recruits in 2005, just under their 14% share of 17-to-49-year-olds in the overall U.S. population. And minorities are not being used as cannon fodder. "Data on fatalities indicate that minorities are not being...