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Shattuck said, "this area is fairly sophisticated about the issue of tax-exempt status," and said Cambridge receives a payment in lieu of taxes from Harvard, as well as direct taxes on some University real estate which is not considered exempt...
...University is the city's largest landholder, but it pays no property taxes. Although Harvard does give Cambridge a payment in lieu of taxes, the institution nonetheless has a large social obligation to the community as its biggest property user. The University has also contributed, albeit indirectly, to the homeless problem by destroying 78 homes when it built Leverett and Mather Houses. We should not be content with letting homeless people sleep on our vents...
...never dreamed of working at Harvard until they offered me a job," Crooks recalls. The timely offer came upon graduation, enabling him to support his family and accept a scholarship to graduate school. After a two-year stint teaching at West Point in lieu of service during the Korean War, Crooks says he was again solicited to come back as director of the Summer School in 1956. He's been here ever since...
...shot at the world championship, though I doubt they do. Rather, it has to do with the fact that to deprive America of what it really wants, what it really needs--a Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...
...lieu of board games, today's child is barraged with a whole assortment of dolls and plastic toy figures. Usually these synthetic creatures come in a group, as in the case of the "Snugglebumms," a close-knit and multi-colored familial unit comprised of: "Momma Brightly," "Papa Gently," "Princess Snugglelina," "Snugglebumm's Kids" and "Tuggles" with omnipresent flower cart...