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Twenty miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, is the city of Monrovia (pop. 30,100). Unlike many of its wealthier neighbors, which developed in the post-World War II boom, Monrovia was incorporated in 1887. It grew into a working-class town, with some pricey sections in the foothills, some slums near the freeway and a lot of modest homes in between. Four years ago, a new redevelopment agency brought an ailing business district back to health with some strategic investments; the completion of the freeway in 1976 spurred further growth. Housing...
Mather House residents, upset over the removal of their hot breakfast, grew decidedly testy at the removal of all heat from their dining hall. During the peak of last winter, the students--many of whom had grown accustomed to wearing coats to meals--lobbied to have a thermometer placed in the hall. Buildings and Grounds officials were properly mollified to learn that the dining hall was heated to a less-than-balmy 60 degrees, and then did nothing...
After months of frustrating contract negotiations, Harvard's maintenance workers walked off their jobs for three days this March. During the strike, the University and the workers traded harsh recriminations; each accused the other of bad faith. The University threatened disciplinary actions, the workers grew angrier, but financial pressures forced them to return...
...Bell struck again in March when a dyspeptic computer cut off more than 1000 phones in the Cambridge area for two days. Students first grew suspicious when a recorded voice kept instructing them to insert 45 cents into their living room phones before calling long-distance...
...with issues that were very much on people's minds around the country," he explains. At first, however, the breadth of attention the plan received surprised him--when he first realized that the Harvard reforms had struck some sort of educational nerve. After that, as the waves of publicity grew, as the stories in the national papers stretched longer and edged their way onto the front page, they merely confirmed his belief in the importance of the task at hand...