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...return, residents promised not to seek a City Council moratorium on Harvard’s northward expansion. For the University, this is quite a relief. Harvard emerged this fall from a three-year fight with Riverside neighborhood activists, who petitioned the council to set stringent height limits on University buildings in the area. Harvard reached a deal with the council in October, but the University’s concessions to residents carried a hefty $15 million price tag, according to one council member. So not only did Harvard’s deal with Agassiz residents generate good will...
...city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition to Rotterdam's approach. And with good reason: local initiatives...
...NCAA regulations, Harvard can only make a European trip every four years, but the Crimson has not been able to go in recent years due to a school-imposed moratorium for fund-raising...
Today, Fitzsimmons has figured out a way to get behind the College Board’s moratorium on income-tracking. He and his team search for high-performing students in zip codes they know to be blue-collar or below...
...heading from the fire to the frying pan. After studying the dangers of allowing food products derived from clones and their offspring into the U.S. food chain, the FDA has issued a preliminary report declaring them just as safe to eat as those from any other animal. The current moratorium against selling food from clones will remain in effect for now, but the national debate may be just heating...