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Harry W. Pearson, an Economics professor at Bennington and a spokesman for its faculty, said yesterday that the ad hoc committee on future directions, which consisted of three faculty members, Parker, and several Bennington trustees, presented the faculty with "what amounted to a fait accompli." He added that a committee memo attached to the report charged the faculty with "implementation of the report, and not deliberation" of its contents...
...whole issue of the report being a fait accompli was a thing which arose in the anger of the moment," he added. "People were infuriated by the talk that the board of trustees liked the report before it was submitted to the faculty--besides, the trustees are not a group of right-wing fascists...
...over the top. It was a simple suggestion--but one that was difficult for RTH to refuse. Harvard offered to supply the housing project with free steam, chilled water, and cooling from its own power plant, thus inextricably linking the two. RTH accepted early this year. With that fait accompli, RTH had no choice but to work side by side with Harvard against other Mission Hill residents to get the power plant built as fast and as soon as possible...
...Bicentennial is making its presence fait on the Boston area theater scene, we may all have drowned in red, white and blue streamers by the end of the summer...
...embargo, trade between Cuba and OAS nations is growing rapidly, and a number of foreign subsidiaries of American firms participated in a Mexican-sponsored trade fair in Havana in March. As one Mexican foreign officer put it last week: "The return of Cuba from years of isolation is a, fait accompli...