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Thanks to the energetic support of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the rich may be poised to get a whole lot richer - and congressional Democrats could be staring at an election year gold mine. Friday, the GOP-controlled House, with the help of 65 rogue Democrats, passed a bill that would repeal estate taxes by the year 2010 - a far more sweeping (and expensive) tax break than the version favored by most Democrats, including President Clinton. And while Clinton has vowed to stand in the way of the bill, the Republicans are only 11 votes short of those needed...
...known as "South Yard." In an effort to reverse the trend toward living off-campus, Lowell commissioned four dorms for first-year students on the newly-acquired lands: Gore, Standish, McKinlock and Smith Halls. Ground was broken in 1914. With the eruption of the First World War, the Gold Coast apartments suddenly became unprofitable to manage. Harvard immediately bought them and had no difficulty filling its newly-built river residences...
...action and a man of vision. In 1929, he agreed to donate what became a $13 million gift to Harvard, funding a system of 300-person residences that would house Harvard's upperclass students. Four had essentially already been built. Smith Hall became Kirkland House, the Gold Coast apartment buildings of Randolph and Westmorly became Adams, Gore and Standish combined to become Winthrop House, and McKinlock, along with Mather Hall (now Old Quincy) became Leverett. By 1931, Dunster, Lowell and Eliot Houses had been built and Harvard had established its original seven Houses...
...Lowell, however, held rather contradictory views, and his "democratic" vision was in many ways qualified. He believed that certain conditions were necessary for Houses to work the way he wanted them to. Though they were to cut away at Gold Coast elitism, Lowell's Houses nonetheless charged higher rents for larger rooms. Poor students got what they paid for, while the wealthy often paid twice their rent for more luxurious digs. Moreover, Lowell's equality did not apply to all. Notoriously, he forbade blacks from living in Harvard housing because, he said, it would upset Southern whites and thereby undermine...
...Harvard Coach Gordon Graham and his squad are already looking toward next season, and they are setting their sights on regaining the lost Ivy gold...