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...store, which will also serve coffee starting at 6 a.m., takes over a Harvard-owned location at 1312 Mass. Ave., next door to the former location of Toscanini’s, another local ice cream store. The University leased the property at “20 to 25 percent” below what the market rate would have been, according to Petryk...
...University tends to offer more reasonable rents to its preferred businesses, which are local businesses and not national chains, so they actually contacted me about the space,” the J.P. Licks founder said. “That they see us as an asset to the entire Harvard community was actually very flattering...
...organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people at the school, Heather's mother, Ardena Gillman, decided more serious action was called for. She talked to the local branch of the American Civil Liberties union, which pursued the case on the grounds that Gillman's First Amendment rights were being violated. This week, in a two-day trial that resulted in a rare, immediate ruling from the federal bench, Gillman won her suit against the Holmes County school...
...reaction in the Iraqi capital. First there was buzz around the city about flight delays from Baghdad International Airport, which goes into lockdown when VIPs land or takeoff. Since no dust storms were grounding flights, anyone traveling could have assumed some American bigwig was heading in. But when local TV reported the visitor was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there was a collective shrug of the kind you might expect from Republicans catching a glimpse of her somewhere in McCain country...
Private donors have faced some government restrictions. Those who arrive in the towns have been asked to hand over their relief supplies to local authorities for distribution. Instead, many are reportedly storing the goods with sympathetic locals and secretly distributing them by themselves. The junta doesn't want foreigners distributing aid in the delta, but neither does it feel comfortable with Burmese distributing it. "The government is scared that relief workers will get involved in politics," says a co-founder of one Burmese relief group...