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After three years of negotiations, Harvard has finally purchased the last parcel of land at Barry’s Corner, an intersection that Harvard planners have said they hope will be the “Harvard Square of Allston.” Earlier this week, Harvard finalized its land swap deal with the owners of the Charlesview apartments, a low-income housing complex that currently sits the land...
Because of its central location in the projected Allston campus, the purchase is a critical and exciting step for Harvard. As part of the exchange, Harvard will build brand new replacement housing units on a nearby parcel of land, a prospect about which many residents currently seem pleased. We are aware, however, that the negotiation process was not always smooth, particularly in its early days. Harvard’s final deal with Charlesview shows that Harvard has improved considerably in working with an awareness of the needs of the Charlesview residents and the Allston community...
...benefit of this deal to Harvard is clear: The University now owns a piece of land that is central to its vision for Allston. But the Charlesview residents stand to gain as well. The current buildings are in need of serious renovation, and most of the 213 units are not handicap accessible. Although the federal government pointed out the need for repair in 1995, it would have proved to be an exorbitantly expensive undertaking, costing millions. Harvard’s offer to build 213 replacement low-income apartments plus additional mixed-income units that may be for sale, rather than...
Muneera Habib Mansoor was at a garden party in Kabul in 1997 when she stepped on a land mine. Her first leg was blown off, the second had to be amputated. Najmuddin Helal drove over a land mine in 1982 and lost both legs. Gulandam Karami, a widow with three children, stepped on one last year as she was taking her goats to pasture. She lost both legs at the hip, and is only just now learning to walk on prosthetics. She is progressing well, but worries that her new legs - shod in bright red Adidas - will not be able...
...weak and fragmented it seemed unable to even fathom an electoral victory. But, in the early morning hours on Monday, it sealed a surprising triumph over the constitutional reform proposal of a President who, in nine years, had never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote. Raul Baduel, the former defense minister and longtime ally of the President, also...