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RICHARD DALEY, Chicago Mayor, after the City Council approved a ban on the sale of foie gras on the grounds that production of fatty duck and goose livers requires inhumane treatment of the birds...
...endowment but the Green Loan Fund,” said Summers, referring to the savings generated by the fund. The University’s $25.9 billion endowment has averaged more than 15 percent growth over the past 14 years. Summers delivered the keynote address along with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at the Harvard Business School yesterday afternoon. The three-day conference, to which more than 580 people from the Harvard community and the Boston area have registered, features panel discussions, workshops, and tours of the University’s green facilities. The conference seeks to convey to the University...
...blueprints for the science centers to the University. “We thought it was very important to get him here before he does anything, so he could talk to you, hear your thoughts,” Gordon said. The task force, composed of local residents appointed by the mayor, encouraged the architect to consider a more conservative approach, carrying over some of the brick and molding of the Cambridge campus. “The feeling that you have when you step into Harvard is one of being enveloped in years of tradition. It’s a feeling...
...Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’74, who voted against the petition, suggested that the matter be referred to the zoning board to determine the legality of spot-zoning...
...Nagin's opponent in the May runoff, Landrieu, comes from a politically powerful family. His sister is U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and his father, Moon Landrieu, who served as mayor of New Orleans in the 1970s, opened up city government and facilities to African Americans - a record that has not been forgotten. "One of the great challenges for the next mayor is, how do you harness all of this national energy that wants to come in, and how much energy there is in the city, and actually move it in the right direction?" Landrieu told TIME Sunday. He said Saturday...