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Much of the discussion centered on the Community Preservation Act, a Massachusetts general law aimed at helping towns acquire open space in their communities for preservation.
Governments, unlike terrorists, respond to incentives and balk at threats. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 wrote on Sept. 12 that “any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack...
As long as the money goes to improving the club’s building, alumni of the final club will be able to legally write off donations to their old haunt after a Cambridge City Council vote approved their preservation easement.
Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Society, said his organization holds preservation easements for seven Harvard-affiliated club buildings.
But although preservation easements allow those final clubs to have lower taxes, none of them can receive tax-deductible building donations, because their easements are held by the city and not a third-party nonprofit as the Fly’s is.