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...proceeding with the construction, Harvard will not only offend the primarily (not to say historically) domestic character of the neighborhood, but will destroy whatever green space is left in the rear of the beautiful early 19th century mansions (both under protection of Architectural Preservation) still standing on Kirkland Street. Moreover, it will completely dwarf and enshadow the charming little Swedenborgian Church, already diminished by the huge Gund Hall at its side...
Well, again, not quite. The settlement was how politics works in America. The way capitalism works is this: strategists at such vendors as Dell and Compaq let it be known that they had no plans to offend the company that rules their industry by accepting an offer made with a gun to its head. Meanwhile, Gates' browser rival, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, held his own Thursday press conference, seizing this window of Microsoft vulnerability to announce that not only will he start distributing Netscape's Navigator browser for free, just like Microsoft, but that he will also give away...
...much. And to anyone who has ever worked with Masten, studied with him, heard him speak at professional events, exchanged writing with him or sat down in his office, the notion that this individual is dicey as either scholar or citizen is so contrary to the evidence as to offend judgment...
...course, nearly everyone polled was in favor of freedom of speech, the press, religion, association and all that yada. Get down to the specifics, however, and it's a little different: 53 percent were against displaying art that may offend; 47 percent would ban songs with distasteful lyrics and 49 percent want a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning ? which, last time the courts checked, was a form of free speech...
...quite smell the "apathy in the air" noticed by your staff reporter when I see more than 100 students at a Thursday night debate for those who would represent on the Undergraduate Council. The odor that does offend is that of slighting the students who made the effort to be involved and informed by writing the presence of more than half of them out of existence, thereby perhaps exacerbating the problem of any apathy in the population that reads this newspaper...