Word: parks
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Anyone who has watched the leaves in Central Park turn slowly through somber autumn shades to brown and finally, wrinkled and dark like an old man's face, drop spinning to the ground, knows something of that special feeling one gets at the changing of the seasons. I often regret that I don't visit New York in autumn very much nowadays--my workplace is a fiery 1000 miles away, straight down--but I always remember with fondness my trips there of the past...
Tent City squatters had occupied the site for one month before MIT evicted them from the land, which is part of the controversial University Park development site near Central Square...
...shaky on the whole thing,' said formerTent City Mayor Evelyr Parks. She said MITofficials implied they would not satisfy TentCity's demands for use of the three MIT-ownedhouses on Blanche Street that are part of theUniversity Park Development Plan. The houses,which have been vacant for 14 years, have been thefocus of Tent City residents' protests...
...unless organizers are able to raise enough money to pay for roundtrip air fair, participants will either have to pay for themselves or take out loans, according to Park. Currently the group has raised only one-third of the money needed...
Students interested in going to Leningrad must apply at the CFIA by Monday. Applicants need not be fluent in Russian, although the CFIA will choose three to four members of the team who are fluent. Park said successful applicants would be notified before Christmas...