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...relationship, however, has sometimes been a rocky one. Plans calling for the Kennedy Library and Museum to be constructed on Harvard's campus were derailed in 1975 because of town-gown tensions...
...Reeves said the current period will be critical in shaping future town-gown relations...
...political memorabilia abounds, including 13-inch statues of each president, each accompanied by a small glass case of presidential doo-dads (including a spoon from Coolidge's inauguration, a pair of the Reagans' wine glasses and a Clinton golf ball). The first ladies are represented as well; inaugural ball gowns line one wall. One seven-year-old girl, pulling her mother by the hand, passed judgment on each dress: "I'd wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin number with...
...Cissy. When grief-stricken Miamians took to the streets two weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian's mother emerges slowly from the ocean, her gown drenched, and softly, in a voice that gradually grows louder, she sings of her loss. "She's like the commentator in Evita," Graham explains, humming a few bars. Can he work in a Tennessee waltz...
...Cambridge City Council passes an order supporting a "living wage" of $10 per hour for all Harvard employees at its meeting and threatened that town-gown relations may become strained unless the University acts soon. In May 1999, the council mandated that all city employees and employees of firms contracted by city must be paid at least $10 an hour...