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Bloomstein told residents they could seek a building moratorium from the City Council, which would effectively halt development projects in the area—a tactic the Riverside neighbors had successfully used to block the building of the art museum. Last June, in an informal straw poll, ANC members voted 24-1, with two abstentions, in favor of seeking a moratorium...
...concluding moment of the Harvard women’s hockey team’s season was its most trying. After months of high ambitions, the season came to a sudden halt in double overtime of the NCAA championship game on March 23 when Minnesota-Duluth’s Nora Tallus caromed the puck into the net. Now that the title pursuit was over, the Crimson faced a different daunting task—coping with the disappointment of achieving all but its highest goals...
Derek C. Bok, then-University president, decided to halt all of Harvard’s operations except “essential services” of the University police, Food Services and Health Services, in compliance with the governor’s emergency order...
...Abbas is politically weak, however, and to succeed even in meeting the security requirements of the first phase of the "roadmap," he will depend on coaxing a cease-fire agreement out of the Palestinian radical groups waging the armed intifada. The combination of persuasion and enforcement necessary to halt terrorism will almost certainly require the support of Yasser Arafat, who remains more powerful than Abbas both inside the Palestinian Authority and on the street...
Derek C. Bok, then-University president, decided to halt all of Harvard’s operations except “essential services” of the University police, Food Services and Health Services, in compliance with the governor’s emergency order...