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...example, was important for Gutenberg building his printing press and Columbus setting sail; the 19th for Fulton and his steamboat, Morse and his code, Bell and his telephone, Edison and his light bulb. But in other centuries the pure thinkers were more influential. The 17th, for example, boasted Newton, Galileo, Descartes and Locke...
...current situation is a little more complicated: the chapel has been put on sale because of the poor financial situation of its owner, the Swedenborg School of Religion in Newton. But the congregation has the right of first refusal (that is, they have the chance to counter any offer put on the table), and Harvard has the second right of first refusal. Now that the exterior of the chapel has been preserved, it is unlikely that any major destruction will befall the building, but the congregation rightly wants it to remain as a place of worship...
...chapel is owned by the Swedenborg School of Religion, a Newton-based seminary teaching the doctrines of a Christian sect. The congregation using the chapel is called the Church of the New Jerusalem...
Sometimes in the next few weeks, Reps Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) will introduce legislation to overturn a part of a federal law denying funding to law schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus because of the military's policy on gays...
Representatives Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Newton) and Thomas J. Campbell (R-Calif.) are preparing to introduce legislation that would repeal part of the "Solomon Amendment," which was passed last year and withholds federal funding from colleges and universities that bar military recruiters due to the military's discrimination against gays...