Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard administration, which accuses the clubs of encouraging criminal activity: If people didn't drink in the clubs, they'd go to bars or, more likely, they'd drink in the dorms. Do you really want the liability to land in your hands? Think of the clubs as a convenient insurance barrier and stop writing melodramatic letters to first-years that only contribute to the clubs' already over-blown mystique...
...problem is a shortage of land and an abundance of anxious neighbors...
Harvard revealed two summers ago that it had bought $88 million worth of land in the blue-collar community of Allston and took massive heat from the community. Northeast of campus, opposition to the proposed Knafel Center has forced plans to be redrawn three times, with no sign of easing...
...that working-class Boston neighborhood, theUniversity just purchased 52.6 acres of land,divided between large tracts of land on the eastand scattered storefronts on the west. Harvardsays for now that this is just a land bank, withno immediate plans for development...
...Harvard has the land to build a newgraduate school in Allston, or move a crowdedschool (like Grogan's alma mater the GSE) acrossthe river, and then the shopping-center propertyto control what stores move in to serve thestudents it ships to Allston...