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When All Is Fair opened at 45 Mt. Auburn St. yesterday, the pro-union retail outlet became the newest occupant of a site that has seen a tumultuous history. Currently owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership, a Cambridge-based nonprofit, the space was previously occupied by Pi Eta, an all-male social club that folded shortly after a 1991 out-of-court settlement with a woman who alleged that she had been raped at the club. In the years before it closed, Pi Eta had become a regular object of controversy on campus. In 1979, a student was paralyzed...
...available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $37-$74 general admission with group, student, and senior citizen discounts available. (AMF)ExhibitsThird Annual “Faces of Cambridge” Benefit Photo Gallery. Saturday Dec. 3-Monday Dec. 5. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Local nonprofit group Cambridge Student Partnerships is displaying student and professional photography at the Zero Arrow Street space. During Saturday's opening evening, there will be live music and refreshments. All proceeds go towards training student volunteers for work with low-income and homeless individuals. (AJR)The Century of Bach and Mozart...
City bosses love their towns, says Hanson, 55, CEO of the nonprofit Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (GMHF). But new subdivisions are McMansion-studded culs-de-sac, "and their kids can't afford to live there anymore." He launched GMHF in 1996 to fight a housing shortage, applying New Urbanist principles to small towns. His portfolio is now up to 40 developments...
Neuromarketing has its share of critics. Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit group that Ralph Nader set up to monitor commercial forces in society, sent letters to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in July 2004 calling for an investigation into the practice. Commercial Alert says it fears neuromarketers could "peer into our brains" and control our buying behavior. Joshua Freedman of FKF says such fears are misplaced. "Some people view this like Frankenstein and brain control, but I think that science, by trying to understand what goes on in human brains, should be very freeing by helping...
...trying to help would put in as much as they can,” said Navaee, who helped coordinate relief efforts at the Law School.After last year’s tsunami and Hurricane Katrina financial pledges, the University was criticized by some for using its funds to benefit nonprofit organizations rather than for academic pursuits.“It’s a situation where the University is going to make somebody mad no matter what it does,” said Peter D. Hall, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government?...