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There have been a few faint signs from Harvard that the University is beginning to realize that its annual in-lieu-of-tax payment to the city could be raised to help keep Cambridge afloat in the new are of Massachusetts fiscal austerity. Last month, for example, the University settled a decade-old dispute with city officials about the Cambridge St. overpass near the Science Center by paying about $150,000 to cover repair costs incurred by the city...
Jacob Lamar plays the young Black man, swift and fierce, something of a swashbuckler, full of lashing motion. David Reiffle, the elderly shopkeeper, settles into counteracting stubborness and stolidity, wrapping himself in a faint German accent...
...scientists can offer no easy answer. Skeptics have failed to solve the mystery with statistics, and more detailed photographs do not exist. The gap may yet prove more illusory than real-an optical trick, perhaps, played by dwarf galaxies too faint to be detected. The group is going back for a closer look, but even if they find a small army of dwarfs, someone will still have to explain how it got there...
...which connect to the operators' office. Each operator sits in front of a long bank of flashing lights and colored buttons, wearing a clip-on earphone and a near-invisible, transparent, cable mouthpiece that keeps her hands free. When a call comes in, the console emits a faint beep and the operator answers it with the press of a button...
Prejudice certainly is widespread. Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these...