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...Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, it is "the project of the century." In the Soviet press, it is BAM. But whatever it is called, the Soviet Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway is the biggest construction project under way anywhere in the world today. To tap directly into the varied resources of Siberia, the Soviets are laying track across a 1,965-mile stretch of wilderness running from the frontier town of Ust-Kut near Lake Baikal to an eastern terminus at Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost...
...professors, former presidents of the American Historical Association (Morris) and the American Political Science Association (Burns), decided to redress the historical slight. They dreamed up Project 87 to celebrate America's next Bicentennial, that of the Constitution's adoption, with a cerebral, nine-year program sponsored by the two scholarly associations and culminating on Sept...
...three-phase project, under the direction of Donald Robinson, a Smith College political scientist, will focus initially on research into the Constitution and its evolution. Among possible topics...
Both Morris and Burns stress that their project will be critical as well as contemplative. Says Morris: "When you compare the noblesse oblige of people like James Madison, John Jay and Thomas Jefferson with people we really don't have to name, it raises the question of whether a Constitution written by men with one set of values can still operate in the 20th century." Burns especially hopes that Project 87 will study the Constitution not from the traditional standpoint of what America can teach other countries but with a focus on what the U.S. can learn from them...
...controversial 3-2 vote, the Cambridge MBTA Yards Project Review Board last week recommended the Carpenter/Cambridge Associates plans for developing the $4.2 million parcel of land in southwest Harvard Square...