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...There were a lot of entrepreneurs waiting in the wings who would have paid substantial money to obtain this property," said Tandler. "Harvard did without this money to provide a service for the community...
First, to obtain the required series of federal and state permits and authorizations, various studies and projections had to be prepared by engineers and consultants. Buckley applied for the key federal document, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in November 1981, then waited 14 months to get the license papers. It was also necessary to get a Water Quality Certificate from the Vermont department of environmental conservation. All told, permits or approvals were required from almost two dozen federal, state and local boards and agencies, and it cost some $200,000 to get them...
...helped Mission Hill community leaders organize the program and obtain a grant from the Boston Foundation, Tyree said, a process which she said took several years since it was first conceived. Tyree added that she planned to ask Phillips Brooks House, the undergraduate community service organization, for future assistance...
...private-housing stock, some of the most ambitious renovation is being performed -- again -- by community-development corporations, which obtain funds from local governments, financial institutions and religious organizations. In Chicago, Bethel New Life, a Lutheran Church group, has refurbished 321 homes, built a day-care center and saved a crumbling school building. Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts has proposed a bill that would provide $500 million to help nonprofit community groups purchase and rehabilitate low-income housing...
...brilliant analyst, a born maverick and a savvy political infighter. He was also, as Sheehan eventually learned, a shameless hypocrite with a "secret vice" he could not or would not control. To Sheehan, who worked as a young wire-service reporter in Viet Nam and went on to obtain the Pentagon papers for the New York Times, Vann is the very symbol of the U.S. in Viet Nam: a courageous do-gooder masking a dark streak of amorality. Vann's story, as told by Sheehan after 16 years of painstaking reporting, is not just a biography but a sweeping history...