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...Street parking lot, as well as retail space on the ground floor of the Mass Ave building.NEIGHBORHOOD BUY-INWhen Harvard began laying plans to build graduate student housing in the Riverside community several years ago, it stoked a great deal of hostility in the less-wealthy, historically-black and Irish community.Among the residents’ principal complaints was the size of the building’s underground parking lot, which would destroy a number of trees, as well as the fact that the buildings would block light and generate noise.The Riverside residents were not able to the reach an amicable...
...will realize that telling off the boss, such exhilarating fun the night before, may have consequences later that day. Or they will wake up to regret grabbing the microphone from the singer in the rented band and regaling the room with a medley of Oh Danny Boy and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. And, oh, the lampshade on the head, and, ah, the hand on the backside of a stranger. Why? And what...
...This year the award panel, which includes former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, former Irish President Mary Robinson, and Nobel peace laureates Mohamed ElBaradei and Martti Ahtisaari, praised Mogae's "outstanding leadership." Mogae had "ensured Botswana's continued stability and prosperity in the face of an HIV/AIDS pandemic which threatened the future of his country and people" but which is now declining thanks to "one of Africa's most progressive and comprehensive programs for dealing with the disease...
...runs $55 billion worth of infrastructure assets, including ports in Britain, an Irish phone company, real estate across Italy, France, Germany and Japan, a fleet of jets, Australian gas, American rail stock, even a telecom cable under San Francisco Bay. Now the credit crunch is forcing it to sell off assets to cut its debt, estimated to total $35 billion...
...Once snapped at Nelson Mandela during a meeting and stormed out. Mandela now affectionately refers to her as the "Irish Devil" and "the Wardress...