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Harvard is currently exempt from most city zoning. The legislature last year allowed Cambridge to regulate other city colleges and universities but excepted Harvard because of an antiquated passage in the state's Constitution protecting the University...
Ironically, the land use bill passed last year does not limit Harvard's expansion. The university, protected in the constitution of the Commonwealth, is currently exempt from any regulations the city passes. But this exemption may not stand much longer. A bill repealing Harvard's exemption on this particular issue has already passed State Senate and House committees. The Commonwealth is expected to adopt the legislation later this year...
...added that the clubs' membership practices "are exempt as fraternities under the requirements of Title IX of the Educational Amerndments...
What about the "small" saver who wants to set aside 25? or so from his allowance each week? Bankers blush at the thought that they might be thwarting grade-school thrift, and some have moved to exempt children from the new fees. New York's Manufacturers Hanover, for example, waives for minors the $1 quarterly charge on pint-size accounts. But if the pressure on banks to streamline their operations continues to grow, the kids, and many of their on-the-brink elders, may find that a piggy bank is the best they...
...were all concerned about those activities," Horner said. The college always has to be carful that its activities do not border on the political so as not to injure its tax-exempt status, Horner added...