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Your assertion that Harvard approached the building's demolition in isolation from the preservation community is not true. In September, Harvard openly brought its plan for Carey Cage to the Boston Landmarks Commission, the City's public body specifically empowered to consider historic preservation issues.
The Commission is comprised of seasoned professionals and business-people experienced in evaluating difficult planning and preservation decisions. After listening to Harvard's campus planning objectives and after making its own evaluation of the merits of the building, the Commission unconditionally granted the University the right to demolish Carey Cage...
While the Los Angeles program--37% federally funded--wins praise from children's advocates, its sponsors fear its benefits will be canceled out by legislation now moving through Congress. With 4 million to 10 million children scheduled to be cut from the nation's welfare rolls in the next seven...
Even when "family preservation" is the right goal in theory, caseworkers say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to enact, owing to wholesale cuts in the programs they use to shore up a household in crisis. Drug and alcohol counseling, mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and...
"We have a wonderfully rich heritage, how do we use it to best serve the present?," Parson asks. "It is important not to be slaves to the preservation movement."CrimsonGabrielle Page WilsonThe Harvard Union, in an early photo, before the sides were added to the rotunda (top). Students lunch yesterday...