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...future campus in Allston will still feature a contemporary art museum and stem cell research facilities, University officials told a group of Allston residents last night. The presentation to the Harvard-Allston Task Force suggests that momentum is building for the University’s development of its land holdings across the Charles River, though planners expressed some frustration with the slow pace of Harvard’s decision-making process, mentioning several times their attempts to pressure the University to come to a decision about the ideas it has been batting around since last spring. “We?...
...simple hop, skip, and jump for me to conceive of myself as the last of the Jedi, brought here by destiny to redeem my father, who so loathed this place. Or perhaps the heir to the Corleone empire, finally accepting my birthright in a small piece of land that my ancestors conquered in the face of ethnic hatred...
...particularly lost in your eyes, or particularly worried about our mutually destructive qualities. It’s because I know what happened to the last generation here. I walk the streets and see the ghosts of their passions and failures, and know that I must redeem this land and be redeemed by it. You and I are bound up in an irrational history that neither of us can understand, and I want you to know how I think about my legacy...
When I first set foot in Bhutan 16 years ago, the "Land of Hidden Treasures" defined its relation to development very simply: it was not, and would never become, Nepal. "Women who will have sex with anyone. Pot, marijuana. People sleeping in the street"-I can still remember a Bhutanese official's voice shaking as he described the "low-class" foreigners his nation had watched streaming into its Himalayan neighbor. Nepalmed by what had come in through its open doors, a Kathmandu that had, up till 1955, barely seen a road was cluttered with Nirvana Tours agencies, 50-cents...
...panels are so volatile that half a dozen editors regularly run the strip on the editorial page. Sometimes they don't run it at all. The Los Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That...