Word: planned
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WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence endorsed a controversial plan to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station in Harvard Square, he signaled victory for Harvard's bureaucratic interests at the expense of its academic mission...
Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the company which manages the University's non-academic property holdings, has pushed a plan to turn the Gulf site, one of the last tracts of undeveloped property in the vicinity of Harvard Square, into a hotel to house guests of the University. When Spence endorsed the plan--with the understanding that the site will eventually be sold to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS)--HRE cleared a crucial hurdle...
SINCE its inception, the plan has encountered bitter opposition from almost everyone with an interest in the fate of the Gulf site. The University has run rough-shod over the wishes of them...
...Middle East is never short of peace plans, only of peace. Last week both the Israeli government and Palestinian groups were engaged in heated internal discussions over the latest proposal for holding elections in the occupied territories. Forwarded by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the plan loosely parallels an election scheme put forth last April by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. But Mubarak's version includes some provisions that the Israeli leader has already rejected, including the participation of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the exchange of land for peace...
...much of a sop to Israeli sensibilities to warrant acceptance. They are also concerned because the P.L.O. is excluded from direct participation. For their part, four senior Cabinet officials could not even agree whether to acknowledge the Egyptian proposal, since doing so would in effect admit that the Shamir plan had been supplanted. Insisting his own initiative must be answered first, Shamir's dour response to Egypt: You agree to the principles of our plan, then we can discuss yours...