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...guide the development of the rest of the site. The 265-acre Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain houses a collection of over 14,000 different plants and receives 250,000 visitors a year. Originally Harvard property, it was donated to the city in 1882 to be included in the park system designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Boston then leased the park back to Harvard for 1,000 years. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...women in the audience at the historic Park Hyatt hotel, with cheeky, cleverly worded queries designed to produce newsworthy answers, seemed to be auditioning for the White House press corps. The President looked into the room holding 550 people around circular tables in the hotel's French Renaissance-style splendor, and called on Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel defense lawyer from New Hope, Pa. "Since the inception of the Iraqi war," she said, "I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators." The topic...
Four out of Five StarsIn the summer of 1971, British director Peter Watkins led a band of documentary filmmakers and amateur actors into the Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film’s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience...
...Though the Arsenal was once as large as 130 acres, the Pentagon had reduced the site significantly. In 1968, it sold 55 acres to Watertown, which the town redeveloped into the Arsenal Mall and neighboring park. Due to the complexity of the cleanup effort, the EPA split what remained of the site in 1988 into three parts, one of which was the Arsenal buildings that Harvard now owns...
...According to the EPA, the soil on the Arsenal’s premises and the nearby park were laden with “pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and ‘poly-aromatic hydrocarbons’” like benzene and other carcinogens...