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Massachusetts state representative Michael J. Moran unveiled a surprise two-page list of demands on Monday that he says Harvard should submit to before Boston approves University construction in Allston. Moran’s declaration calls for Harvard to establish and partially fund a K-12 school in the neighborhood by September 2009 and create a construction mitigation program, among other things. Moran said he hopes that the members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, a group of Allston residents appointed by the city to review Harvard’s plans, will recommend that the Boston Redevelopment Authority...
...players, many of them suffering from disabilities for which they are demanding benefits, the NFL is also addressing the worrying rise in concussions. For the first time, all players were required to take neuropsychological tests by the start of the 2007 season. Doctors can then use these results to establish a baseline of cognitive abilities, memory and motor skills against which they can compare scores after a head injury. The league also added a concussion hotline that players can anonymously call if coaches are forcing them to play against medical advice. Such measures won't prevent catastrophic injuries...
...second is an overstatement, and the answer to the first is obvious. Fortunately, the hearer assumes that the speaker is rational and listens between the lines. Yes, your point is to request the salt, but you're doing it in such a way that first takes care to establish what linguists call "felicity conditions," or the prerequisites to making a sensible request. The underlying rationale is that the hearer not be given a command but simply be asked or advised about one of the necessary conditions for passing the salt. Your goal is to have your need satisfied without treating...
...Williams also said that Andrews stood out because of her work at HMS. “Her colleagues [at HMS] all described her in superlative terms,” he said. As a vice dean at HMS, Andrews has worked to increase funding for collaboration between Harvard faculties, establish reviews of HMS’ basic sciences departments, and introduce new courses and programs within the school. Andrews will take office at Duke on October 1, and said she has a busy schedule for her first months in the post. “We're going to be building at least...
French presidenNicolas Sarkozy has made itclear he's determined to re-establish France as both a force in international affairs and a valued friend of the U.S. Inevitably, those objectives will sometimes be in conflict. In his first major address on foreign policy, for example, Sarkozy rejected the notion that Iran should be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb, but he also denounced the strategy, favored by some Washington hawks, of launching preventive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Instead, he urged renewing efforts to negotiate Tehran's renunciation of its nuclear program as "the only one that allows...