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...University hired a private company to take over the operations of the managerially and financially troubled Harvard Faculty Club. Creative Gourmet's of Allston began to run the posh Harvard institution in September...
...mistakes like this will happen in the Anglo-fascist fantasy world of Brazil. Imagine that Nazi Germany had colonized Britain after winning World War II, and you can visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English temperament was forced to accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations"). Slogans of the police state are everywhere: DON'T SUSPECT A FRIEND--REPORT HIM. And scrawled...
Hagen, 66, an actress's actress and a renowned teacher who is too infrequently seen in major productions, is really too old for the vibrantly sensual, fiftyish Warren. But she handles the confrontations stunningly. In the most striking moment, she wheels on her daughter, drops her posh accent and snarls a question in the gutter Cockney she spoke as a girl, revealing a whole lost life in the intonation of a few syllables. Outsize in energy but subtle in her thinking, Hagen remains among the strongest single forces on the American stage...
...last Wednesday, a bomb exploded in the posh Belgrano district of Buenos Aires, shattering the windows of an apartment building. Less than 19 hours later, President Raul Alfonsin gazed somberly into a television camera and addressed the people of Argentina. "Professionals of violence," he claimed, were attempting to undermine his government by "creating insecurity, the sensation of impunity, generating the idea that democracy is incapable of defending its citizens." Over the previous six weeks, he charged, these "demented phantoms" had been responsible for 1,806 bomb warnings and 42 explosions. But, he warned, they would not prevail...
...while condominium conversions and posh building complexes mean profits to some and an attractive bedroom community to Cambridge's growing population of affluent young professionals, they inevitably mean prohibitively expensive housing and probable displacement for many people who now live in the city. A Cambridge housing market without rent control not only would encroach on the city's various blue-collar neighborhoods--the most common fear of rent control activists--but would also exclude many moderate and middle income professionals. Moreover, the cost of displacing many Cambridge residents would be an end to the diverse and vibrant community that...