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...owners of the building that houses the Brattle Street Theater have agreed to give city officials a say in renovations of the popular landmark...
...city was planning to make the site a Cambridge landmark, said Cambridge Historical Commission official Sally Zimmerman. Such a move would have given the city the same right to approve changes, but the building's owners asked for the easement before the city acted...
...retailing giant (1987 revenues: $48.4 billion) was putting its landmark headquarters, the Sears Tower, on the block. Target price: a record $1 billion-plus. The offering was remarkable not just for its size but for its symbolism: the 110-story tower, which commands a view of four states, had seemed to signify the company's invincibility and dominance over the U.S. consumer marketplace...
There is merit to this argument, but American elections are never quite the low-risk Tweedledee-vs.-Tweedledum contests they sometimes appear to be. It is sobering to recall that even the landmark struggle between Kennedy and Nixon was once widely belittled as an echo, not a choice. As Kennedy partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote at the time, "The favorite cliche of 1960 is that the candidates . . . are essentially the same sort of men, stamped from the same mold, committed to the same values, dedicated to the same objectives...
...workers fear that the sale of the profitable shuttle is just the first stage in the dismantling of the Eastern empire. If it goes through, it is certainly the latest conquest for the Trump empire. By announcing his acquisition in the Grand Ballroom of New York's landmark Plaza Hotel (another recent purchase), Trump reminded his audience that when it comes to collecting varied treasures and making them his own, he is in a class by himself...