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...when Al Vellucci's speeches no longer echo in Sullivan Chamber, the city will still reflect the mayor's more serious achievements: Harvard's voluntary payments to compensate the city for its tax-exempt property; city government attention to the hazardous side of Cambridge's many chemical and biotechnology companies; and above all, Vellucci's contributions to the rent control ordinance and his steadfast support for that...
Supposedly, Hirsch weeded out specialized entries by using a formula of selecting only events, people or things that major newspapers would refer to without a definition. (Under that rationale, many of Hirsch's entries are extremely questionable.) The science entries, compiled by Trefil, are exempt from this qualification, since "there is little broad knowledge of science even among educated people." Granted, but does one need to know what thermal inversion is in order to function as a literate member of society? Similarly, would a science major feel a driving need to recognize that John Constable was an artist...
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Harold Raynolds said the state board has criticized the plan because of BU's request to be exempt from public meetings and open record laws. "If BU wants public money and public power, they have...to do the public's business in public," he said...
...garage's developers, The Athenaeum Group, claim that it is not a "commercial" facility, and is thus exempt from the freeze. That group has filed a countersuit, requesting compensation for its expenses...
Saddam described the bodyguard's killing as the "will of God," but said it was his duty not to exempt anyone from the law. In this case, justice may be tempered with mercy. "I could not hold back my tears," said Justice Minister Akram Abdul-Qader Ali, who named a committee to investigate the killing. Odai has enjoyed a playboy reputation, and is rumored to have acted violently on occasion. He held prominent public posts, but his ostentatious life-style contrasted sharply with his father's calls for sacrifice during the gulf war. In the conspiratorial world of Baghdad politics...