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Maher still glows when he talks about the compromise he helped engineer between Harvard and Riverside. Under the final agreement, passed at a marathon meeting last Monday, Harvard will give the neighborhood a public park and 30-34 units of affordable housing. In exchange, the University will be able to develop its property in the area...
After running out of junk food during an early morning smoking marathon in the Hamptons on Sunday, several members of the Fly momentarily faced deprivation for the first time in their lives. Thankfully the instincts of privilege kicked in just in time to save them—the guys ended up breaking into a neighbor’s house and stealing several boxes of cookies while the family was sleeping soundly upstairs. Says Joel S. Jacobs ’04, “Larceny is all about getting in your zone: I pretended the cookies were a loosely monitored state...
Although some residents said they felt rushed during the marathon last-minute negotiations, they largely threw their support behind the plan last night and expressed hope that it would signal the start of better relations between Harvard and a neighborhood that has historically fought the University’s expansion...
...weekly paycheck, it wouldn’t appear from the outside that there’s a lot of common ground among the Phonathon staff. In my three-years-and-counting at Radcliffe, I’ve worked with varsity football players, women’s studies concentrators, Australian marathon runners, Theta officers, Undergraduate Council representatives and aspiring eastern European bankers. Snacktime discussions can take a little while to get going at the start of the school year, but by October you can smile conspiratorially at a whole new set of people when you pass them on the street...
...four-and-a-half-hour marathon, which drew the attention of both baseball fans and those just looking for a party, tested the willingness of Harvard students to forego sleep and work on a Thursday night during midterm season...