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...meeting with the Harvard Allston Task Force on Monday night, Allston residents erupted in anger and frustration over the university’s ambiguous plans regarding Allston development progression. In particular, residents expressed concern over Harvard’s continued acquisition of property while it has simultaneously enacted plans to slow the building of the new science complex. Residents are worried that a slowing pace of construction in Allston will mean leaving these purchased properties vacant—preventing other businesses from entering the area. The university has already slowed its purchase of raw materials intended for use in later...
...fill the space of their beloved Craigie Street Bistrot finally have their answer. A new restaurant, Ten Tables, which aspires to replicate the “dinner party in someone’s home” atmosphere of its original Jamaica Plain incarnation, opened its Cambridge location on Monday night. After about a year of planning for a new branch, co-owner Krista Kranyak settled on the former space of Craigie Street Bistrot, tucked off Garden St and a quick walk from the Quad. “I just sort of had a vision,” Kranyak said...
...assistant professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences won a National Science Foundation award and over $200,000 for her teaching and research into how fungi can clean up mining sites, SEAS announced Monday. Colleen M. Hansel, a specialist in environmental microbiology, will receive $212,000 over the next two years and up to $537,000 over the next five years through the foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development award, she said in an interview yesterday. The award is given annually by the foundation to faculty in the sciences who haven?...
...auction market, of course, has its own unique calculation, driven as it's said by the incalculable "price of two people's desires." Surprisingly, the only disappointment on Monday was that a late Cubist work by Picasso - Musical Instruments on a Table, which had the highest presale estimate, of some $30 million - went unsold. The Saint Laurent-Bergé auction continues on Tuesday and Wednesday with the sale of rare furniture and antiquities, including two Chinese animal heads that Beijing says were pilfered and must be returned to China. Earlier on Monday, a Paris court rejected China...
...Giovanna Bertazzoni, head of Impressionist and modern art for Christie's London, is hoping that Monday's record results will give a boost to future sales, after several auctions have taken place with extremely limited supply. "This was a special case," she said of the Paris auction. "But we hope that this will help us unearth more masterpieces, to convince others that this is a good time to sell. We see tonight that people very much still want to invest in art." Nevertheless, the same logic - and the shaky world financial system - may yet convince collectors to hold...