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...really don’t think that we’ve thrown that out,” Chief Operating Officer of the Allston Development Group Christopher M. Gordon said in an interview last month. “It was a framework but not a plan. I think it is still guiding our work...
...Harvard’s Director of Community Relations for Boston Kevin M. McCluskey ’76 said that the strategic plan was a framework, and was not intended to be binding...
...Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians implicitly understand that a solution to their interminable feud requires a framework in which both sides feel secure, yet they remain deadlocked. Similarly, in Sri Lanka, newspaper polls suggest that Tamils as well as Sinhalese grudgingly accept the need for political compromise. The years of fighting, however, have left people bitter and angry and all too ready to seek revenge in a terrible cycle of violence. "There are those who are very war crazy," says Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a think tank. "And the rest often go along...
...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...Pompidou turned the world upside down by turning it inside out. What would ordinarily have been the inner workings of the museum - escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took the Modernist rule that a building should clearly express its structure and extended it into realms where Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier never ventured...