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...acre tract of land in Hamilton, Mass. According to local advocates, Harvard has been involved in talks with a non-profit, the Trustees of Reservations, that has expressed interest in buying the land, which is part of University holdings known as the Harvard Forest. Part of the dustup revolves around Harvard’s fidelity to the bequest that deeded the land to the University in the first place. It specifies that the tract be maintained as an “experimental station in forestry for the benefit of all persons and institutions in New England.” Another...
Dealings with the trade unions are less clear-cut. Settling the dustup with the Transport and General Workers' Union early in the year at least averted the even bigger losses that a cabin-crew walkout would have triggered. But the ugly dispute left both parties admitting that a fresh start was necessary. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s. Walsh acknowledges, "You don't change the way you do business with long-established trade-union relationships overnight...
...Cheney's dustup with the normally non-controversial National Archives and Records Administration is the latest reminder that Cheney believes he can play by his own rules. And it probably secures for Cheney a place alongside Richard Nixon in the Washington pantheon of secret-keepers...
Story-selling dustup follows Brit sailors' return...
...dustup aggravated old, sometimes ugly, tensions between Christians and Hollywood--including, yes, that one. "It is an evident and clear truth that Jews control Hollywood productions," wrote a respondent to a post on the New York Times' the Lede blog, while others made anti-Semitic insinuations about Israeli-born Tomb director Simcha Jacobovici. Meanwhile, in a debate following the TIME.com blog post that reported first word of the documentary, some defenders of the film taunted Christians as "weak and defeated...