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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, after the situation persisted through the summer, Harvard Real Estate, in conjuction with several homelessness empowerment groups (including Spare Change, Bread and Jams, and Solutions for Work) decided to erect the cage over the grates on Holyoke...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Questioning the Cage | 10/20/1995 | See Source »

...1960s, she appears sly and humorous, a girl who wants to kick up her heels. At one point she begs Vidal to tell her how she can become an actress. Jackie was unconcerned about her husband's infidelities, says Vidal (he refers to J.F.K. as "the President-erect"), and suggests she was aware of his inclinations from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEMOIRS: UNSENTIMENTAL JOURNEY | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

Approximately 80 volunteers helped to erect the eight-foot-high structure, which will house about 150 guests during the Sukkot festival...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Hillel Builds Sukkah | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...lawn of the museum that they bought it for $1,400. "You can't find such a monumental sculpture for that price," Woodward said. Now, however, the couple must assemble the 10-ft.-high, fan-shaped contraption and worry about what the neighbors will think when they erect it on their own lawn. "At least it is not obscene," said Woodward. Merely a white elephant with a new life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSEUMS: WHITE ELEPHANT PARADE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...problem is in striking a balance. In the early 1800s Jackson Hole was merely a valley where fur traders put up their tents; in the past few years it has become a vanity address for stock traders and business tycoons to erect their second and third getaway homes. Since 1986 local housing prices in Jackson have risen 15% a year, while local wages increased only 5% annually--a trend that could force out the wealth-impaired. So town and county leaders enacted a development plan barring oversize "trophy" homes with more than 8,000 sq. ft. of livable space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SORRY, NO VACANCIES | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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