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Harvard’s latest effort to expand its holdings of local real estate met resistance this week from Boston’s mayor and other influential officials, who say they want more time to review Harvard’s $75 million bid to buy a 91-acre parcel of North Allston from the cash-strapped Masschusetts Turnpike Authority...
Despite working as a humanities editor at Johns Hopkins University Press and Oxford University Press before taking over HUP, Sisler pushed the press to expand in the sciences. Regardless of field, Sisler says he is uncompromising in his dedication to publishing top-tier scholarship. “The number one thing is quality,” he says. “If you make $5 million a year and publish junk, that’s not fulfilling our mission. If we publish the best stuff we can find and come close to breaking even, that should be of value...
...neighbors’ list of demands—dubbed the Carlson petition after its chief proponent, local filmmaker Cob Carlson—call for primarily residential zoning and serious height restrictions, including a limit of 20 to 24 feet on a controversial, Harvard-owned plot. The University hopes to expand on the 880 Memorial Drive site, which it currently leases to Mahoney’s Garden Center...
...highest bidder in an auction for 91 acres of severely encumbered Allston land, Harvard will likely expand its land holdings across the river by nearly one third this Friday—but the new land could come with some heavy political baggage...
...suggest that war would go out of style. Yet as we begin the 21st century, war has been shelved as a means of policy among developed nations and in the entire Western hemisphere. America’s leaders need to recognize and carefully protect this unique opportunity to peacefully expand the new world order of freedom and prosperity...