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...contrast, the activists and residents of Tent City demanded that MIT negotiate and take a more active role in solving the community's problems. Specifically, they demanded that MIT make concessions to the homeless at the site of the planned multi-million dollar University Park development. The development, as it is now envisioned, will provide MIT with more than 100 units of new housing. The proposal has been tied up for several years largely due to strong community resistance to MIT's expansion...
...which Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack of Beanstalk fame and other beloved characters all meet in the same forest at the same time and blunder into one another's stories -- Sondheim and Director-Librettist James Lapine started sketching ideas soon after the premiere of their first collaboration, Sunday in the Park. Through three workshop productions, a regional tryout at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and five weeks of Broadway previews, they kept making fundamental changes almost daily, even in the basic plot. Quips Woods Co-Producer Rocco Landesman: "Opening night is a formality to these guys. I wouldn...
...family life. I saw ((my parents)) occasionally at night and on weekends, and I thought every child in New York lived that way." Sondheim's father was a manufacturer of medium-price dresses, and his mother was the firm's designer. "We lived very nicely," he recalls, "on Central Park West in Manhattan, but at the back of the building. After my father remarried, he moved to Fifth Avenue, still at the back of the building. From him I get my tendency to pessimism. He always looked at the black side, imagined the worst that could happen. Eventually my stepmother...
...Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...
...dingy building on Manhattan's Park Avenue South is a good half-mile from United Nations headquarters. There are no flags, no logo and no indication that controversy rages inside. Only the directory in the red marble lobby provides a clue. Listed inconspicuously in alphabetical order, right after Quadrille Wallpapers & Fabrics Inc., is United Nations Archives, twelfth floor...