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...endowment was in 2007. But it is not money alone that makes a partnership and developing land that Harvard already owns could be at least a break-even venture. Schools much smaller, with far fewer financial and intellectual resources, have formed true and productive partnerships with their local neighbors. The University of Pennsylvania’s deep commitment to local engagement described in its “Penn Compact” and the University Park Partnership between Clark University and Worcester, Massachusetts are two worthy examples...
...holiday shopping season might boost revenues battered in recent months by a tumbling economy. Expecting the worst, Cambridge business owners said they were pleasantly surprised at the number of shoppers on Friday. One early report suggested that national sales had increased only 3 percent from last year, and all local business owners acknowledged feeling the effects of the slowing economy. At the Adidas Store on Mass. Ave., where employees handed out coupons mimicking back-stage passes that offered passers-by the chance to win gift certificates, managers were decidedly bleak about business prospects. “Not well...
...think what they were thinking while they were in there,” she said.Mashruwala’s whole family lives in Mumbai, her home through the tenth grade. The bombed locations were places she and her family and friends visited on a daily basis, such as a local movie theater. The attacks in Mumbai have claimed over 180 lives and left Harvard students and faculty with ties to the Indian commercial center searching for information on family members and grappling with the implications for their homeland.NEAR MISSRia S. Tobaccowala’s grandfather was at the Oberoi Trident...
Leaning against the fence of a simple horse barn one recent Sunday afternoon, Lynn Gentine wistfully watched her oldest daughter, 13-year-old Mikayla, groom a chestnut mare named Sadie for perhaps the last time. The horse program, an activity of the local Girl Scouts council, is shutting down as the organization suffers declining membership and dwindling resources. The council itself is being merged with another, which doesn't need Camp Daisy's horses...
Part of that approach involves reducing the number of local Girl Scout councils from 312 to 109 through mergers. In some cases, the newly merged councils have more facilities than they need. For example, when Camp Daisy moved under the umbrella of the Kansas City, Mo., council, officers took a cold look at the rustic horse barn. The council already has a state-of-the-art Scout Equestrian center two hours away, which made Daisy's horse program an easy target. (The Scouts are still trying to figure out just what to do with Daisy's 23 horses...