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...brought to ground level at a slower pace while planners conduct detailed cost analyses to determine whether to keep current plans, reconfigure the building to cut costs, or halt construction completely. Faust said the rest of Harvard’s Allston planning—which has been slated to occur over a 50-year time span—will also slow. She added that Harvard will “develop options for interim improvements to [its] existing properties” as well as deliver on its previously agreed-upon community benefits. Harvard programs promised space in the complex, such...
...fact that communities and their aspirations continue to change, conflicts are an indispensable reality in our societies. My definition of peace is an atmosphere in which harmonious change can occur. Therefore, I am stressing the need to introduce innovative global conventions to exert balanced pressure on all stakeholders in a conflict zone. This would keep disturbances within the frame of humanity, just as gravity orchestrates droplets colliding without repeatable pattern into a waterfall...
...annual events. According to Finance Committee Chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’11, caps on the amount an organization can receive are expected to be raised this coming week. The council expects student groups to request funds in the spring because national competitions—many of which occur in the second semester, according to Iyer—are eligible for funding. “We’re responding to the fact that our caps were too low and making sure that our policies are helpful,” said UC President Andrea R. Flores...
True killer collisions occur not when spacecraft traveling in the same band or orbital plane bump each other but when there's a full-blown crash between two ships in different planes - say, between one ship in an orbit that carries it over the U.S. and Central Asia, and another in an orbit that carries it over Western Europe and Eastern Asia. That's what happened on Tuesday...
...narrators in “Lark and Termite” are all introverted, insightful, and observant. What’s more, they are uniformly and oppressively good. The novel opens with the perspective of Corporal Robert Leavitt, father of the as-yet-unborn Termite (the portions that feature Leavitt occur on the same days as the other perspectives, but nine years before). Leavitt is an American soldier in South Korea who is devoted to his wife (read: does not have sex with prostitutes), and, ultimately, gives his life to protect a young Korean mother and her blind child from American...