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...regarding the equipment required for—and the liability to be borne by—Castine’s proposed business, the University’s unwillingness to transparently discuss these issues demonstrates an unforgivable lack of forthrightness. Moreover, the proposal itself—even with the supposed obstacles??seems quite reasonable. In terms of cost, the investment of $35,000 per house, as estimated by the administration’s consultant, seems to us a trivial price to pay for the installation of a system along the lines of that proposed by Crimson Cable...
...With the start of the primary season just weeks away, the more than 100 dues-paying members of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) appear as fractured in their loyalties as conservatives nationwide. On campus, supporters of Giuliani find themselves up against additional obstacles??a largely liberal student body and the many competing demands on student time...
...partial privatization of Libya’s Central Bank. “Those of us involved are trying to be patient, take the long view,” Porter said. With the help of international organizations, consulting firms, and scholars, Libya is planning economic and governmental reform. Many obstacles??in the form of red tape—still exist to entrepreneurs in Libya, according to an article in BusinessWeek. The article also said that the reformers hope to encourage foreign investment. “A country in a tense relationship with the U.S. has settled all the international...
...expansion of the oft-unreliable and infrequent shuttle service to a new locale is hardly an improvement at all. The University needs to take a more innovative approach to solving the same old transportation problems in its brand new campus. Indeed, it is facing substantially more difficult obstacles??namely the river and a series of high traffic throughways. It would be a shame to build incredible new facilities for learning only to allow an inadequate shuttle system stand...
...viewed architects as celebrities, Louis I. Kahn’s life would have been made into an “E! True Hollywood Story” a long time ago. Kahn battled early obstacles??a fire that permanently disfigured his face, his family’s immigration from Estonia to America—to become a celebrated designer of famous buildings all over the world. Then he lost it all, falling deep into debt and finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created...