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...come into stores when they have them available.” THE UNWRITTEN PACTThere’s an “unwritten pact” between the University and the community that retailers will be allowed to use the ground-floor space in Harvard-owned buildings, according to Pebble Gifford, the vice president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), a volunteer organization founded in 1979 that works to preserve the character of Harvard Square.According to Gifford, the “biggest battle” with the University is maintaining the pact.When the University built the new library building...
...student knows, that type of entry cost is greatly inhibitive to attracting new (and not nationally branded) restaurants to the Square. If the HSDF. actually wants to make Harvard Square “something different” than the rest of the world (as then-HSDF president G. Pebble Gifford told The Crimson in 1996) then it must move past its archaic and irrational positions. In the mean time, we thank the City Council for advocating more sensible policies. We hope that as Mayor Reeves and many councilors expressed on Monday night, the Licensing Commission will rethink its Byzantine rules...
...DiCaprio spent a month in South Africa meeting former mercenaries, undergoing military training and learning the local accent. Although he talked with several ex-mercs and diamond experts, it was a military adviser on the film, a Rhodesian (as some white citizens of Zimbabwe still call themselves) named Duff Gifford, who captivated him. "He's really the man who brought me to the understanding of what this culture was like, what it was like to fight in these wars, the painful things that he'd seen, the love he has for Africa and the bitterness he has as well," says...
HSDF Vice-President G. Pebble Gifford writes in an e-mail that thanks to Cambridge’s fast food zoning ordinance and its strict regulations involving litter and disturbance issues, most national fast food chains have not tried to enter Harvard Square...
...offering special events and celebrity guests such as Butch Patrick—TV’s Eddie Munster—and WWE Superstar Kane. With thrills like “International Monster Museum” and “The Experiment” and showcasing the magic of Gifford and Roy, Spooky World is certainly not, as its website proudly proclaims, “nothing more than monsters jumping out.” Take the red line to UMass/JFK. Expo Center is at 200 Mount Vernon St. If you can’t find the time or the transportation...