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...Hundreds of thousands of people converge on Washington to support women's legal right to an abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. Harvard sends one of the largest contingents of any college campus...
...Harvard confirms that it is negotiating with the St. Paul's Parish to buy its rectory and parking lot, the largest plot of undeveloped land in Harvard Square...
Faced with constant disputes over property development and expansion, Cambridge and its largest land-owner and employer--Harvard--seem to be at war more often than at peace...
Over the past week, the Sever Quad has been transformed from a frisbee and lacrosse haven to the site of the nation's oldest graduation ceremonies. The University has erected more than 70 tents around the Yard and in the courtyards of the residential houses. The largest--a 175-foot dacron covering bought in 1986 for Harvard's 350th Anniversary--covers the Tercentenary Theater stage alongside Memorial Church. It protects an area more than twice as large as previous structures, shielding the likes of President Derek C. Bok, Pakistani Prime Minister and Commencement Speaker Benazir Bhutto from the elements...
...largest number of the 10,764 tourists who climbed the mountain last year came from the U.S. That can be blamed on Hemingway, says Iain Allan, a mountain climber whose Nairobi company arranges treks up Kilimanjaro, mostly for Americans. "Americans were brought up on his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and they simply have to come and see for themselves." What they find is not one but two forbidding peaks: gaunt, craggy Mawenzi and snowcapped Kibo, the summit that looms over Harry, Hemingway's gangrenous protagonist, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white...