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This problem has become more pressing as available space in Cambridge gets harder to come by. Harvard's purchase of 52 acres across the River in Allston is part of a contigency plan, should the University eventually need to expand...
...matter how you slice it, there is only a limited amount of space in Cambridge," Rudenstine says. "The only place to [expand] is across the river. All you need is a map to show you that...
...entirely... American. And since no one has ever accused Bill Clinton of being less than savvy, there he was Tuesday, perched on the edge of the chasm, announcing his decision to designate three new national monuments, including land along the north ridge of the canyon, and to also expand an existing site. And while the assignation of national monuments often yields little more than a pretty picture, this case is a bit different...
...trying to expand one, the University has aroused fears that it will destroy the other--and since the gardens possibly in peril were designed by famous American designer Beatrix Farrand, this construction plan has become a national concern...
...While we expand, we also contract. America Inc. has become a term for describing the unending mergers of vast companies--multibillion-dollar mergers, real money today. Oil companies, car companies, food companies, banks; everything comes together. Media companies become telephone companies. Telephone companies become software companies. Book-publishing companies are swallowed whole by companies that make music, movies and magazines. Nothing is wrong with these adhesions in principle, but some "products," like books, suffer. Not long ago, the large book publishers would take on a number of excellent but unprofitable manuscripts as a kind of intellectual duty, pro bono work...