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Harvard and MIT hold nearly half of the land in Cambridge, and the University says it contributes more than $100 million to the local economy. The University is wealthier than the city of Cambridge and, many say, more powerful. And Harvard has a number of tools at its disposal in its lobbying efforts...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Is Harvard Just Another Big Landlord? | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

Women's basketball in the Northeast suffers from a profound lack of respect. Regardless of some teams with high won-loss records and impeccable regular-season play, squads in the Northeast rarely land a bid in a post-season tournament...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Eastern Women Cagers Looking for Respect | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

Though police arrested 10 of the protesters and slightly injured two others in the action against what had become known as "Tent City," about 20 protest veterans returned this weekend to the plot of land where the enclave stood. From the site, it is easy to see the skeleton of MIT's 27-acre University Park development which the campers gathered to protest last year...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Tent City Remembered a Year Later | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...group erected a model of an octopus that it uses to symbolize MIT, but did not try to build anything more permanent on the land this time, Stewart said. He said MIT did not try to stop the protest...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Tent City Remembered a Year Later | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...press him into harmony-singing and lyric-writing service on Love Rescue Me, a high point not only for the band but also for their informal spiritual adviser. The Edge, the band's wizard guitar player, contributes a lilting, spooky piece of folk inspiration, Van Diemen's Land, and the whole group works out at Sun Studios in Memphis, where Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis cut some of their best sides. It is a deliberate pilgrimage, of course, but Angel of Harlem, one of the tunes recorded there, not only pays homage to the Sun tradition but also cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U2 Explores America | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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