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Harvard’s plan to redevelop the Arsenal complex in Watertown draws criticism. The city claims that the University’s tax-exempt status will cost it tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue. The University claims it will pay a “generous and appropriate fee” in lieu of taxes. Busloads of school children stage a miniature protest...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...
Already tests were in place to exempt students from some first year classes, and Conant foresaw a sped-up academic calendar during the war years...
...privacy, as well as its status as a private university may therefore protect its affirmative action program even if—and, as it seems increasingly likely, when—the Supreme Court rules Michigan’s program is unconstitutional. (The court has often ruled private institutions exempt from scrutiny on this issue...
...Palestinian-extremist attacks on U.S. soil unlikely for one key reason: many Palestinians have viewed the U.S. as their best hope for pressuring Israel to halt its military drive into their territories. But in recent weeks, some investigators have quietly shifted away from the assumption that the U.S. is exempt from the kind of suicide bombings that have rocked Israel. "If the frustration continues to grow and we keep meeting with lack of success, what's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back?" asks a senior official who until recently was a disbeliever in a Palestinian...