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...schedule a hearing so the case could be reconsidered, about 15 Brookline and Boston residents barricaded the meeting room doors in protest. After capitol police were summoned and the meeting cancelled, it was held by telephone with Harvard threatening to take the governmental agency to court if its permit was denied...
...says because Harvard began construction of MATEP and bought the diesel generators before it had been granted governmental permission, it made it “politically impossible to deny the plant its permit...
...They used their economic and political muscle to push the project through by beginning to construct the plant without a permit and by putting up a stack, which was enormously expensive,” Partan says. “They also purchased the diesel generators before they were licensed to construct and operate the plant. What this did for them was ensure that this plant would be built...
...usually be filled with water, but when tides rise to a height of 43 in. or more, compressed air would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float upward, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off the inlets. Sea locks would permit ships to pass while the gates...
...European institutions. Euro-skeptics are already portraying the convention as a cabal of creeping federalism. Last week the tabloid Sun published a poll showing that 81% of Britons don't know a new European treaty is being considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit a referendum; it's the last thing he needs. But opponents think the refusal leaves him vulnerable to charges of arrogance - which not only Tories are making. Clare Short, his longtime International Development Minister, quit the Cabinet last week to protest the U.N.'s marginal role in Iraq, but blasted...