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Over the past half-dozen years, Harvard representatives have spent hundreds of hours negotiating with neighborhood activists, bargaining with Cambridge City Councillors, and even circulating a petition using the e-mail address tunnel@fas.harvard.edu...
Tonight’s meeting will culminate months of wrangling over how to consolidate Cambridge’s unwieldy array of 15 elementary schools, balance a $2.6 million deficit and fill hundreds of empty classroom seats. The committee has scrapped more than a half-dozen merger plans already, and district administrators proposed this one as their best offer...
...years ago last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was picked to be president of the 30th Guard of The Harvard Crimson. FDR was probably chosen for the Crimson presidency (after getting turned down by the Porcellian Club, by the way) in a smoke-filled room where a half-dozen prematurely crusty white men named Lowell, Cabot and Adams (and maybe one named Goldberg) drank sherry and flipped a silver dollar to pick the next leader of their getting-to-be-venerable organization before heading home to be “sucked foolish” (to quote the Secret...
...Bamiyan's ramshackle bazaar. When completed it will help revive Bamiyan's war-shattered economy, and Col. Walker is also using the project to provide employment for some of the dirt-poor landless refugees camped on a mesa north of town. But there is trouble: only a half-dozen men are working, thigh-deep in the cold water, shoveling out foundations for the concrete bridge abutments...
...been the only one in Macau history, and Lam Go-wan in Hong Kong?s. Both were remarkable for reasons other than their sociopathy: Wong evaded the police for nearly a decade, and Lam carried out his victims? dismembering and packaging in a cramped apartment he shared with a half-dozen family members. As in ?Untold Story,? Danny Lee (who gets co-director credits on both films) plays the tough detective who captures and questions the killer ? and whose methods are portrayed as hardly less barbaric than the murderer?s. More, perhaps, since they represent the force of darkness...