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...heart of the probe are two perplexing questions. Have post-Watergate reforms designed to shield the IRS from political abuse unintentionally allowed corruption to flourish by exempting the agency from proper oversight? And is the agency, headless since Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs resigned at the height of the tax season last March, using those reforms to prevent the subcommittee from delving into the wrongdoing...
...proposal currently before the council, sponsored by East Harvard Square resident Terry Crystal, would severely restrict development rights on land in the vicinity of the station, cutting the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 3.0 to 1.75, and imposing a 45-foot height limit on buildings covered by the petition. FAR is the ratio of the total floor area of a building to the area of the property on which it sits...
...addition, community activists have argued that the proposed hotel would increase traffic in Harvard Square area and destroy the character of the area's neighborhoods. A downzoning petition currently before the City Council would halt that project by severly limiting the maximum height and floor area of buildings in the area...
According to Jameson Marvin, Director of Collegium Musicum and of Choral Activities at Harvard University, St. Matthew's Passion represents the height of Baroque music and masterpieces. Marvin says that Bach makes use of all contemporary music forms, including the aria, ariosa, recitative and the accompanied and a cappeila choruses that were popular at the time...
SASC members attributed the decline to the media blackout in South Africa. "Three years ago was the height of the divestment movement and South Africa was on TV every night," said Randal S. Jeffrey '91. "Now it's not in the news every...