Word: laws
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David Sullivan, a candidate for Cambridge City Council who drafted the city ordinance, said yesterday Harvard may be breaking the law by continuing to convert the four-story brick apartment into office space for the Graduate School of Design...
University officials said Harvard may be exempted from the law because the plans to convert the building had been announced before passage of the act. "Since the work was underway at the time, there is a question of whether 7 Sumner Road was subject," Robert Silverman, a vice president of Harvard Real Estate, Inc., said Sunday...
...citizens commissions around the country is to be watchdogs. Privately supported, mostly with business contributions, the groups have professional staffs ranging from 19 in Chicago to one in Saginaw, Mich. They have no power to make arrests or subpoena witnesses. But by serving as independent monitors of crime and law enforcement, they can be useful in making police and public officials do what they are supposed...
...proof can be found in this series about a staid Wall Street law firm; it is the latest triumph from James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberger, veterans of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the new show, these writers have again loaded a simple sitcom premise with a wide variety of well-drawn (and exceptionally well cast) characters, sophisticated jokes and astute social observations. The first episode, which may be a classic of its kind, also manages to work in unforced slapstick gags, a touch of pathos and a double-whammy final punch line...
...evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero who had to wear shades. "I want the mask back. But the Lone Ranger code is fair play, law and order...