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...stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao (the Well-Married...
...PHRASE town-gown conflict usually conjures up a battle between Harvard officials and Cambridge residents over real-estate or taxes. But the phrase took on new meaning for me the other day when I was tossed out of a local restaurant because a manager didn't like my attitude...
...NEXT STAGE of town-gown cooperation we ought to seek and use a new mechanism which would allow more of Harvard's creative problem-solving ability to focus on Cambridge...
...surprisingly, I would advocate one of Harvard's favorite devices to get started. There ought to be a town-gown committee composed of interested Harvard faculty, key school and city personnel and other community members who could contribute. This committee would catalogue past successes and current municipal needs, develop a list of priority programs to be worked on and seek out prospective University staff with the skills and talent to help...
...Neill works hard at the Office of Community Affairs to improve the once-polarized relations between town and gown. "When the University does something, no matter how insignificant it may seem, we have to consider the consequences, actual or perceived, in the community," she says...