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When Harvard announced its plans to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station--a proposal that would have dramatically altered the character of Harvard Square--it was the City Council, not any Harvard organization, that took action. Ignoring threats of a lawsuit from Harvard, the council passed new zoning for the site and reduced by half the size of future construction...
...flash flood that destroyed sixteen West Virginia towns along Buffalo Creek, along with 125 of their residents. It's not just that Pittston got off the hook for the Buffalo Creek catastrophe with a miniscule $13.5 million settlement by allegedly using its influence with the corrupt administration of former West Virginia Gov. Arch A. Moore, Jr. It's not just that Pittston has been cited for 45 violations of labor relations laws in the last seven months...
Bush has also allowed the right to veto some appointments. Two weeks ago, conservatives torpedoed M. Caldwell Butler, the White House's tentative choice to be chairman of the Legal Services Corporation. But Butler's future dimmed when the former Virginia Congressman told a group of conservatives that he would not stop a Legal Services lawyer from suing a hospital that refused to provide a Medicaid abortion. The group complained to chief of staff John Sununu, who backed away from the nomination...
Some of the most blatant corruption has occurred in Tanzania. Last year a member of the country's parliament, Alli Yusufu Abdurabi, was discovered with 105 tusks. Abdurabi is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania...
...time that we reassessed our priorities and put the lure of creature comforts into proper perspective. Depriving ourselves of life's little luxuries will take effort. But what are the alternatives? To paraphrase former Sen. Edmund M. Muskie, do we really want to sacrifice posterity for the sake of prosperity...