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...just a hulking, dilapidated symbol of federal mismanagement. Since it closed in 1996 as the sparkling- and notably smaller-new state-of-the art facility opened across the street (after its own $133 million in cost overruns), virtually nothing has happened with the vacant building, except that taxpayers keep shelling out $2 million each year in "holding costs" to pay for security guards and bare-bones electrical and heating costs. Assorted stakeholders-federal and local government officials, potential private developers and landmark preservation activists-squabble periodically about what should become of the vacant building. Among the proposals bandied about over...
...College when at Cambridge. “I also want to row and play cricket and have tea and sherry,” Blazek said.Members of the selection committee knocked on the winners’ dorm-room doors last Saturday evening to announce the good news—all except for Blazek. In his case, they interrupted his Glee Club rehearsal.“They had already gotten to Lowell Lecture Hall and talked to one of the assistant conductors about why they were there,” he said. “I came in and sat down. Right...
Dara F. Goodman ’07 enjoyed most of her classes, except for one. “I didn’t like ‘Flirting 101,’” she said. “I thought it was a. really hetero-normative, and b. just not helpful...
...have a structured forum like MIT’s Charm School, Goodman said she has picked up social skills through mediums such as the Women’s Leadership Conference and Office of Career Services events. “I think that we do have our own charm school except it’s not done in nearly such a laid-back or fun manner,” Goodman said. “People take it way more seriously [at Harvard...
...think I’ve done my committee work.” The dean said a renewed focus on undergraduate education, which included the review, has been one of the most important achievements of his tenure. “I think that it has not been common, except occasionally in our history, for someone in this office to pay enormous attention to undergraduate education,” Kirby said. He added that he and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 “realized very early on that we had very significant issues in undergraduate...