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Harvard spokesperson Joe Wrinn confirmed Hines’ account yesterday, and added that the land was too heavily encumbered by railroad tracks and its proximity to the Turnpike to pique Harvard’s development interests...
...favorite characteristics of curiosity, courage, constancy and confidence. I survived my first “camping” experience in the oddly unnatural nature of Fort Wilderness at 12 and overcame my fear of roller coasters by finally caving into peer pressure and braving Thunder Mountain Railroad. For four years my high school got away with sending my class on “educational” field trips to Epcot. During my senior year, our competitive cheerleading squad placed ninth in the nation at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex. And after years of aspiring...
...tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking went for most of the century, until something unheard of began to happen. The courts started to put a dollar value on a life--after...
...tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking went for most of the century, until something unheard of began to happen. The courts started to put a dollar value on a life--after...
Dukakis translated his ideology into action as governor, spending $35 million to purchase old railroad lines that were then remodeled as the MBTA Commuter Rail...