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Since 1979, when construction on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Red Line extension began in Harvard Square, students have been bothered by early morning noise and residents have complained of continual disruption of pedestrian and motor traffic...
National security and military vigilance have an unquestionably vital importance, especially today. Taxpayers should know, however, the real cost of a $1.5 trillion defense buildup. A tradeoff exists: while fares on the MBTA have tripled in the last year, the entire MBTA budget ($60 million) equals less than the cost of three F/A-18 fighter planes (1366 are planned). In the end, political support for economic conversion does not amount to a choice of butter over guns. The question is of civilians demanding the right to participate in the decision of how many guns will replace their butter. In struggling...
...library was originally supposed to be built on the site of the Brattle Street MBTA Station, next to the present Kennedy School of Government on the site chosen by Kennedy when he visited Boston...
...insure an exclusive gathering in order to prevent any opposition to its plan for a debate between David Stockman and liberal Congressman Barney Frank. Some debate. Stockman is Reagan's notorious budget slasher and Frank is infamous for blaming Boston's transit workers for the ills of the MBTA. This is the alternative of the DSOC "socialists" to the massive cutbacks, layoffs and anti-Soviet warmongering of the Reagan Administration: a return to the Democratic Party. "If they don't like jellybeans, let them eat peanuts...
...always been on our guard during Dartmouth weekend," Epps said, adding that the weekend conjures up for him "images of students descending upon us from the wilds of wherever they're from, emerging from the MBTA, and singing songs in front of John Harvard"-- generally "lacking in civilization." However, he said that he "expects responsibility of Harvard students" in keeping their guests under control...