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...what has become an increasingly obvious disconnect between the institute’s tone and imagery and the reality of contemporary politics.The IOP was founded as a “living memorial” to President John F. Kennedy ’40. The likeness and the aura of JFK pervade the building: His visage graces everything from walls to brochures to computer screens. When I attended the IOP’s freshman welcome event back in September 2003, we were shown a video of Kennedy’s famous 1963 commencement address at Vanderbilt, in which he eloquently urged...

Author: By Joshua Patashnik, | Title: Camelot Lost | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

Several customers at Starbucks’ branch in the Garage shopping center on JFK Street said they supported the council’s gesture...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher and Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Wobbly Union Gets Support | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...engineer, whose tale of captivity has since become a cause celebre in Canada. Arar had left Syria at age 17 and married a Tunisian fellow student at McGill University in Montreal. On his way home from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, he stopped to change planes at JFK Airport in New York City. There, FBI agents arrested him at an immigration control desk, and ordered him deported to his native Syria - even though he was traveling on a Canadian passport. He was flown on a chartered Gulfstream jet to Jordan and driven into Syria, to the Palestine Branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...We’ve been beefing up the classical sections in store and increasing the density of our music selection so that we do have more product,” said Newbury’s chief operating officer, Duncan H. Browne, whose 26-store chain includes a location on JFK Street just steps away from Tower. Tower, in expectation of its closing, has slashed prices on CDs, books, and magazines at its Harvard Square location. Valentine estimated that the store will close within the next two months, depending on the actions of the Great American Group...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel and Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Swan Song for Record Store | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...walk from Hurlbut to the KSG tells only a small part of the story. Back then the Inn at Harvard was a Gulf gas station; the Holyoke Center was Dudley House for commuters; Hillel was squash courts. JFK Street was Boylston Street, with a Mobil station and Vespa dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort...

Author: By James F. Flug | Title: Back to the Future: 50 Years Later a Freshman Returns | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

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