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...were somebody to sink to the challenge of Pappin’s philosophical argument, just a question or two could raze his entire theoretical edifice. First, what happened to human happiness? Pappin argues that the only end of all human intimacy is a new human being. He’s wrong. A human being’s right to find happiness in this world is a sacred one, enshrined in our own Declaration of Independence...
Consider, for example, Vellucci’s plans for the Yard: in 1964 he declared his intention to raze Straus, Lehman and Massachusetts Halls to ease traffic in the Square. Four years later, he proposed digging up the Yard to make way for an underground parking garage and bus depot. And as recently as 1988, Vellucci was still issuing public threats to former University President Derek C. Bok in The Crimson: “We will cut all their trees and all their landscape after confiscating their land by police force if necessary...
...Vellucci proposed using urban renewal laws to raze Harvard buildings—including Straus, Lehman and Mass. Halls—in order to solve Harvard Square’s traffic problem...
Waylon Jennings was the other man in black. The "Man Called Hoss." The orneriest corner of a three-man band of country-music outlaws that brought the grit - and the music - back into country music, who helped raze Nashville and remake it his own image. And he did it all Waylon...
...resin of a morototo tree. On later visits, Van Roosmalen noticed that the soil of this farm was 3 1/2 ft. deep and richer than any he knew of in the Amazon, where the earth is sandy and gives out after a couple of years, forcing farmers to raze hundreds of square miles of rain forest every year...