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...becoming harder and harder to find an affordable place to live in Cambridge.Meanwhile, the city was faced with mounting deficits that made it difficult to subsidize housing for Cantabrigians.But Harvard had financial woes of its own. Even though it was Cambridge’s largest landlord, Harvard was charging rents below market value and was losing money on its real estate holdings.To address this problem, the University in 1978 formed Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE), a non-profit company that would manage Harvard’s non-academic property holdings.Within three years, HRE, under the stewardship of Sally Zeckhauser...
...registration and parking infractions now total $2,500. The Department of History and Literature eliminates theses for non-honors students and reduces honors theses to 10,000 words.2/7: The Medical school is given a $42,226 grant to increase faculty pay. A week later, Radcliffe raises room rent for 1957 by $10-$15.2/15: The largest proton accelerator in the world is under construction at Brookhaven, Long Island. The machine will be operated by Harvard and eight other institutions. Two days later, Harvard and MIT commit to building a $4 million lab, sharing operations of the giant...
...town has swelled with the arrival of some 18,000 refugees who left their villages to escape fighting between government troops and a vicious rebel outfit known as the Mai Mai. Most arrive with little more than the clothes they are wearing. Sitting outside a modest house where they rent a room, Ngoi Banza Leontine, 45, and her husband Monji Banza, 47, say they fled the fighting with their nine children just before Christmas, after the Mai Mai came to their village and burned many of the houses. The Mai Mai, who believe in magic and occultism, began cutting open...
...Public distaste for Gilmore reached a high last week when a fan threw a Community Chest card on the board assessing Gilmore for street repairs of $40 per house and $115 per hotel. Gilmore smiled and handed the card to a nearby police officer. "It was a low-rent move, but I'm just glad no one got hurt," he chuckled...
...Perhaps the film's most surprising twist is its humor. When an unwitting real estate agent comes to collect his rent from the bed-confined couple, Candy tells him: "We're junkies; I'm a hooker; he's hopeless." When they move to the country, Candy complains that their living room is too dark, so Dan knocks a skylight through the roof. In this way, Armfield lets light into their darkest hours, bringing a heightened sense of mortality that seems to stem from his own childhood. "When I was 13 years old, my mum was given six months to live...