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...discovered Harvard had been buying many properties in Allston under other company names without community knowledge or input. MacDaniel added that he saw it as “spin and dishonesty” when the University, apparently playing to community concerns that it was leaving property vacant, said 85 percent of its “leasable” property was already leased. The Crimson later reported that Harvard had not yet informed the public that 790,000 square feet of its property was deemed “non-leasable” because the spaces were either unfit for tenants...
...MacDaniel added that he saw it as “spin and dishonesty” when the University, apparently playing to community concerns that it was leaving property vacant, said 85 percent of its “leasable” property was already leased. The Crimson later reported that Harvard had not yet informed the public that 790,000 square feet of its property was deemed “non-leasable” because the spaces were either unfit for tenants or reserved for University construction plans...
...General Court passed a resolution demanding a drastic reconfiguration of the nation’s current energy policy. The plan calls for replacing traditional electrical generation—which produces environmentally harmful byproducts such as carbon dioxide emissions—with a system that would rely only on 100 percent clean electricity. In light of the dangers that our planet faces in the immediate and distant future, the Mass. General Court’s decision is a wise choice that signifies a keen awareness of the importance of energy policy...
...most referenced American university in a Global Language Monitor survey of global media sources. In the two years that the Austin, Texas-based research company, has released this data, Harvard has taken the top spot both times. But this year, it managed to edge out Columbia by only 1.03 percent. GLM’s Predictive Quantitative Indicator tracks references of different American universities in global print and electronic media, including the Blogosphere and social media. Schools are viewed as trademarked brands, with a high PQI value correlating to a high brand quality, according to Paul JJ Payack, president and chief...
...Iowa did vote for Bush—though by only a 0.67 percent margin—in 2004. My publicschool district did prohibit school activities on Wednesday night to reserve time for church groups. And it’s true that, for as long as I’ve made the 20-minute drive from my house to the University of Iowa campus, I’ve been greeted by a massive sign over one soybean field declaring, “God is pro-life?...