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...three days ago.A resident of Charlesview Apartments since she moved out of her aunt’s Dorchester house in 2003, Barber worked at the Harvard Square Staples until March. Now she is waiting for her water to break.Sitting on a chair in the grass outside her ground floor apartment, Barber is also waiting to be told when and where she will have to move. Currently, her home sits on a plot of land at the heart of Harvard’s new Allston campus, a seven-acre triangle at the intersection of Western Ave. and North Harvard Street that...
Mostly, however, we are treated to a hammered-into-our-heads, play-by-play, of implicit connections—Lola equals the misfit shoes, or Charlie equals Lola because he also feels out of place, and so on. Every step of the plot is already marked firmly on the ground...
...Alan Dershowitz. The Frankfurter Professor of Law showed off his debating chops by defending the notorious anti-Semite before an anything-but-impartial jury in a mock trial staged at Harvard Hillel. In a partially scripted exchange peppered with Old Testament allusions and political wisecracks, Dershowitz stood his ground against prosecuting attorney Austryn Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris, who accused Pharaoh of committing crimes against humanity. Dershowitz retorted that Pharoah could not be convicted because he lacked free will, citing the famous Biblical line that “God hardened Pharaoh’s heart...
...earthquake is highly improbable in Boston, although one cannot be absolutely ruled out,” said Hooper Professor of Geology Paul F. Hoffman. However, others said that Cambridge and Boston are as vulnerable to damages caused by earthquakes as San Francisco because of Boston’s weak ground, not because of subterranean tectonic activity. Eva E. Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation’s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins actually...
...plans like Medicare and Medicaid, while Republicans have argued health care already suffers from too much government intervention. But as companies like General Motors suggest that paying for the health care of their employees hampers their ability to compete in the global economy, both parties may someday find common ground on the issue...