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Harvard officials have said that the University considers the current in-lieu-of-tax agreement fair and that it is willing to extend it. However, many city residents have complained that Harvard does not do enough for the city to justify the tax breaks it receives...
...careful not to extend my reach where I'm not welcome or where it's not really part of my role because one can tend to do damage there," she told a Crimson reporter...
...demonstrated its rightward drift. In an anxiously watched North Carolina case, the high bench unanimously reaffirmed a 13-year-old precedent prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing private contracts. But by a vote of 5 to 4 -- with all Reagan appointees in the majority -- the Justices refused to extend the ruling to cover racial harassment in the workplace. Just three days earlier, in a case involving Birmingham fire fighters, the same five significantly lowered the barriers protecting court-approved affirmative- action programs from challenges by white workers...
...once again as American as apple pie. Or nearly so. Using U.S.-made supercomputers, two Columbia University mathematicians have established a new record: 480 million digits, a number that, if printed out linearly, would extend 600 miles. The feat was accomplished by David and Gregory Chudnovsky, Soviet emigre brothers who took jingoistic pride in beating the Japanese. "They may have faster supercomputers," says David Chudnovsky, "but they don't have our Yankee know...
...start of the week, the President suspended all military sales to China. That froze in the pipeline some $500 million of undelivered equipment, mainly electronics gear to improve the performance of F-8 fighter planes. Bush also authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to extend the visas of Chinese students in the U.S., many of whom are afraid to go home. Later in the week, as outright civil war seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some...