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...group of Cambridge youth, who may rival undergraduates in numbers on Allston-Brighton and Cambridge Day football games, the two players had just become local celebrities...
...largest and most dynamic” change to the neighborhood in many years. “There’s this massive development that’s going to be dropped in the middle of the community almost without notice,” said Bruce E. Houghton, local resident and president of his namesake chemical corporation. which operates a plant in Allston. “Where was that going to be discussed?” Houghton, a member of the mayor-appointed Harvard Allston Task Force, said that the BRA had failed to critically examine the Harvard-sponsored plan...
...plan does not include enough opportunities for home ownership, say that the project strays from established principles of urban design and will create an income-segregated North Allston neighborhood. While Harvard agreed to give nearly two more acres of land to the project to help address those concerns, some local residents maintain that the University ought to allocate even more land to the Charlesview development and surrounding areas, rather than letting the property sit vacant...
...Despite the revisions, some Allston residents say that the Charlesview relocation, tantamount to a major residential transformation at the heart of the local neighborhood, remains critically flawed. But even more disconcerting is the slender time frame they have to address their qualms: The community review process is slated to end in October—only three months after the Community Builders presented their revised plan. So far, only one public discussion has been dedicated to examining the plan...
...traders from the Middle East. By the 15th century, the Sultan of Aceh had converted to the faith and the sultanate soon became one of the most powerful in Southeast Asia, commanding a vast spice- and mineral-trading empire. While much of Indonesian Islam is syncretic, mixing traditional local beliefs with the imported faith, Aceh's belief system is generally far closer to the orthodox form practiced in Saudi Arabia, where the law of the land is based on Shari...