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...verge of approving the project—the stipulated community input period comes to a close next month, and only one public meeting has been held thus far about the most recent plan—Houghton and other neighborhood activists say their concerns about proposed housing density, open spaces, transportation, and retail opportunities can wait no longer. And as is common during planning discussions in Allston, blame quickly shifted to Harvard as well. “Harvard University has been completely recalcitrant,” said local resident Brent Whelan. Like some other critics of the current plan, he said...
...according to Susan S. Fainstein, a leading figure in urban planning and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the current draft of the Charlesview plan is “well-designed” and includes an appropriate level of density and open space. She says that she believes the plan should be approved as soon as possible, and that the potential hindrance posed by the Allston residents’ concerns could be in part due to a class-based conflict of interests...
...that song stuck in your head, and after six rounds of Quarters, you have a good buzz going. Now where to? FM’s here with the best of the best in three categories: final clubs, house common spaces, and party suites. They’re not always open to the whole school, however, so remember to have a back-up plan, a heavily skewed girl-guy ratio, or a good story. Final Club: The FlyRather than merely wishing you were a fly on the wall at this illustrious final club, spice things up and stop...
...True, the work of a crop of female directors at this year’s Toronto Film Festival leaves the door open for progress (even if the event was exceptional enough to merit a New York Times article). But it’s time for America to take up the slack, too. The writer Bill Bryson once compared Canada to a sophisticated, black-turtleneck-clad woman in her mid-30s and America to a chubby preteen boy. Though he was being flippant, there’s a kernel of truth to that generalization. In America, 90 percent of directors...
...most of the 1990s, like Afghanistan at the time, the country was torn apart by rival warlords. Like Afghanistan too, out of that chaos arose an army of radical Islamist warriors who were determined to bring strict religious law and order to the country, but who were also open to funding from and cooperation with al-Qaeda. The first shots in what became known as the war on terror were fired by Somalia-based militants when they blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998, killing 213 and 11 people, respectively...