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Tonight's City Council meeting will decide whether to significantly downzone much of Cambridge--a prospect which might have greatly reduced Harvard Square development options...
...pace of consolidation in the industry. If American and United Airlines' multifaceted, one-giant-washes-the-other deal - in which American buys TWA and some of DCAir and United buys most of USAir - goes through, the two carriers would share half the U.S. sky among them. And that prospect has Continental and Delta itching for a merger of their own - one, those companies say, they'd make out of necessity but not desire...
...horrified by the prospect that an age-old rivalry could potentially ruin a student's career. The crime committed was nothing more than a harmless prank, and it is sobering to think that this small mistake could bring a student a felony conviction and 20 years in jail. A short prison term could still have disastrous consequences--not even a Poonster deserves such severe punishment...
...President whose vocabulary of international diplomacy includes words like "Kosovonians" and "strategery" and who still thinks that Foreign Affairs is a porno mag, the prospect of crafting a bold, new, intelligent foreign policy appears bleak. Yet despite President Bush's limited knowledge on such matters, his administration is poised to drastically alter the course of U.S. policy abroad...
Clearly, Harvard's traditional unwillingness to grant tenure to its junior faculty affects men and women alike. But Pellegrini says her status as a woman specializing in interdisciplinary research made the prospect of internal promotion at Harvard even more remote...