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...Prius in a metered spot on Mount Auburn Street. Beantown’s infamously “r”-averse brogue is conspicuously absent here on campus. This slight difference in inflection underscores a vast cultural schism between those affiliated with Harvard and Boston’s locals??a divide that dampens town-gown relations and could hamper the University’s plans to expand into Allston...
Furthermore, the usual efforts must be made to ensure minimal disruption to those not partaking in the Game’s many festivities. The College should work extensively with BPD and the Harvard University Police Department to ensure that crowd flows make logistic sense and to protect locals?? property from any possible collateral damage. (A few extra portable toilets would be nice, since the shortage at the 2004 tailgate created a bit of an undesired spectacle.) Students, in turn, should keep in mind that they are not the only residents of the Boston area and keep their shenanigans...
Last night's documentary interspersed historical background with testimony from locals??many of whom were in attendance last night—about 15 cent ice cream sundaes and cow heads floating in the Charles River...
...massive steel rings, which stood next to Café Pamplona for over a month.The next segment takes a different approach, one more concerned with the mental rather than physical landscape. Architecture professor and artist Michael Oatman has curated an exhibit about one of the most peculiar manifestations of locals?? imaginations: the practice of making miniatures.While model-making is often known as a cultish or clubby habit, most of these works were produced by individuals in private, and these tiny sculptures are projects which many of the creators had kept hidden until now. The exhibit opened last week...
...although the call for recognition of what is common to all may seem at times a bit too much like an authorization for “moderns’” strong-arming “locals?? into endorsing whatever floodtide of products and practices has overwhelmed them, for my taste, it is hard not to be compelled by Appiah’s final appeal: “The people of the richest nations can do better. This is a demand of simple morality. But it is one that will resonate more widely if we make...