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...University’s ability to adequately incorporate the city’s suggestions. The report, known as a scoping determination, is the longest in the city’s history, according to Boston Redevelopment Authority officials and is directed at Harvard’s 50-year master plan in the Boston neighborhood across the Charles River. The document focuses on ways in which Harvard’s development over the next few decades can create a campus that enhances Allston by creating open spaces, improving transportation, and ensuring permeability and connections between Harvard’s existing campuses...
...many attitudes that form up Palin’s religious perspective have been quick to come to light: the governor supports an outright ban on abortions, challenges the view that man is not responsible for climate change, and believes that her plan to put a natural-gas pipeline in Alaska has the support of the big public-works director...
...ideas in the speech - an emphasis on school choice and limiting the power of the teachers unions; offering a form of wage insurance for those who lose high-paying factory jobs and have to take low-paying service jobs - but there weren't any new ones. McCain's energy plan sounded just like Obama's, without the closing of loopholes and tax breaks for big oil companies that Obama (and apparently Sarah Palin, who passed a windfall-profits tax) favors. But he failed to disarm Obama's most potent criticism: that he essentially favors the same policies - especially the economic...
Obama's health plan was a "government-run health-care system," which it isn't. It isn't even mandatory. And McCain's plan would actually increase taxes for some - a good idea, by the way, in a more comprehensive system - by limiting the deductibility of employer-provided health benefits...
...have been the awkwardness of the delivery. What we saw tonight was the real John McCain. But his offering was thin for a country in a heap of trouble. Given the admitted failure of his party, he didn't present anything more than his own integrity as an action plan. And given the anger and vitriol of his campaign - given the scurrilous, sarcastic speeches he allowed to be delivered on Wednesday night; given the embarrassing antics and media conspiracies spouted by his staff - McCain's reputation for integrity has been badly damaged...