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...Jake’s house is Western Avenue, a street where Harvard has been hungrily buying up properties and displacing businesses. The once-thriving town center has vacant buildings and the occasional survivor, like the local pub. But even those still in possession of their lease have experienced a drop in business,. Harvard’s expansion has left the residents of Allston with little more than a panoply of empty storefronts and dying businesses...
...programming of the game to enhance its versimilitude and lent his voice to later editions. The game became such a pop culture phenomenon it spawned its own mythology: The Madden Curse, in which players featured on the game's cover that year are doomed to suffer an injury or drop in form...
...submitted to Patrick by July 1. The budget slashes aid to local communities by $424 million, a 25 percent reduction in the funding the state will distribute this year even after Patrick’s midyear cuts.According to State Representative Alice K. Wolf, Cambridge will see an approximate drop of $7 million in local aid as a result. Across Massachusetts, cities and towns are struggling to cope with the aid reduction, considering measures such as slashing police and fire services, laying off workers, and imposing new taxes, Wolf said.“We knew it was going...
...university to staff and faculty members who will be heavily impacted by the situation. He discussed pressing issues surrounding the $220 million deficit that FAS is expected to run for the next two years. Ever since last month’s announcement that endowment funding for Harvard schools will drop by a steep eight percent, there has been much confusion about what changes will proceed in the immediate future. Fortunately, Tuesday’s meeting helped remove the opacity that normally characterizes Harvard’s financial behavior...
...published this past January, was the product of various scraps of writing—from a 4x6 notebook to Post-It notes and scratch paper. Harding refers to this haphazard production strategy as “guerrilla writing.”“I learned to drop right into the mental space,” he says. “When I had two free minutes, I would write. When I’m doing dishes, I would think about what to write.”Time pressures exist for every creative writer at Harvard, from the professional...