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...Cambridge Planning Board (CPB) held a public hearing last night at City Hall on its own petition to create a Harvard Square Overlay District, designed to limit commercial development in and around the Square...
Orwell's work needs no theoretical overlay mostly because he has an incredible eye for apt detail. He is convincing because he picks up on minor items that are perfect illustration of his points. The details may be improbable or commonplace, but are always appropriate. His approach is almost always tangential to his subject and his attitudes are implicit in what he writes. On occasion he publicly declared his bias, but even he relied mainly on apt illustration or pointed allusion to make his stance clear...
Year after year the delegations of high officials, Congressmen and their dignitaries would arrive in Salgon and, still dizzy from the trip, would receive massive, two or three-hour briefings from colonels with seven overlay charts, then dine with the ambassador or the commanding general, those tall noble Anglo-Saxons who emanated all the confidence of surgeons to their patients. The next day they would be issued green fatigues and flown around by daredevil helicopter pilots to spend (but for the air trip) an unalterably boring day visiting hamlets with pig farms, maternity clinics, 'miracle rice' plots, and children washed...
...determinedly socialist state with an overlay of stern Arab tradition -women have second-class status-Algeria may not necessarily be a just society. But it is an economically more viable one than Cuba. It is also, as Castro may well have observed, a study in paradoxes. Despite the agonies that Algerians suffered at the hands of the French in the eight-year war for independence, ties with France remain remarkably strong. France is still Algeria's principal trading partner; 7,000 Frenchmen teach school or operate medical clinics, while 400,000 Algerians work in France and send home...
Playing brilliantly on the Uniturf overlay surface, Harvard swept five singles and all three doubles matches in straight sets and went on to a convincing 9-0 victory, its third straight since the "aesthetic trauma" at Columbia-Princeton two weekends...