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...response to a similar threat last spring, the city banned the use of several dangerous chemicals and forced Draper Labs to remove them from Cambridge. Why has the city council been silent on the umbrella issue? Could our lawmakers be in the grip of the powerful umbrella lobby? Citizens should be on the lookout for parasol-wielding council members...
...city's largest landlord, Harvard has consistently withheld information and bullied its less powerful neighbors. No wonder the future of the site is firmly in the grip of the city of Cambridge...
...help but wonder if he hasn't been wandering about the area these past 81 years, somehow trying to preserve his team's grip on the title, "the last Harvard NCAA champion...
...math and one in computer science. Given such sparse credentials, faculty jobs for blacks have been extremely hard to come by. At Stanford, for example, a mere 45 of the university's 1,294 faculty members are black or Hispanic. Among minorities, only Asians appear to be strengthening their grip on education's top tiers. At SUNY in 1984, Asians held 531 faculty posts, compared with 316 for blacks. For the current academic year, Asians took all but eight of 68 new job openings...
...Lowell House incident was shocking and disgraceful. Fundamental civil liberties were violated in a most shameful fashion. To be sure, much of the misconduct during this incident may not have been premeditated; many of those who behaved wrongly were improvising in the face of unanticipated developments and in the grip of strong emotions. Nevertheless, their actions at Lowell House constituted grave violations of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Moreover, the mass frenzy that characterized much of the Lowell House protest was the very antithesis of the reasoned discourse that is the defining feature of a university community...