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...Pebble Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a watchdog group that has opposed construction of a McDonald's and other developments in the Square, also attended last night's meeting and voiced concerns...
When the Atlantic City pageant, with hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, airs this Saturday on NBC, some ambitious young woman--one of the 50,000 who try out each year--will realize the gossamer dream that last year enveloped Heather Whitestone, the first deaf Miss America. But in the months leading to that night, the pageant has been slapped with unseemly controversy. A Miss Maryland runner-up charges she was denied her state title because of vote rigging--and attorney Alan Dershowitz is helping press her case. Other state runners-up are vexed because a woman...
...Pebble Gifford, President of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a watchdog group that has opposed previous developments in the Square, could not be reached for comment...
...Gifford says that charge was fabricated. She says the fund has studied the possibility of suing the Globe over the story...
...Gifford vehemently disagrees. She says those who advocate cooperation ignore the greedy intentions of local developers. "That attitude is a very utopian and simplistic view of reality," Gifford says...