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...developments are among five slated to go up in the southwest portion of Harvard Square. In addition, the Kennedy School of Government plans a new annex; a Boston development concern plans to replace the Harvard Motor Lodge with an office building; and local developer Louis DiGiovanni plans a similar structure for Mt. Auburn St., on the former site of the Picadilly Filly bar, the Blue Parrot and the Ha'penny...
Loren D. Estleman's misfortune in life can be summed up in one name: Elmore Leonard. Were it not for his fellow Detroiter's surge to fame and best sellerdom, Estleman would doubtless be known as the poet of Motor City. An award winner both for private-eye fiction and for westerns, Estleman is, fittingly, never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio...
...sponsor. Each of the special jerseys--polka-dot for mountains, red for catch sprints, and yellow for race leader--has its own sponsor as well. And, of course, there are the "official" products of the Tour. There are official soaps, cameras, toothbrushes, cereals, bike pedals, and even an official motor scooter...
Eminent domain is still in Vellucci's vocabulary. Last winter he proposed forcing the University to sell the Harvard Motor House to the city for use as a shelter for homeless people. Nothing came of that, either...
Instead Harvard is going to knock down the Motor House, which is the last moderately-priced hotel in the Square, and build a toney office complex...