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Certainly, Harvard has come a long way since W.E.B. DuBois, unable to afford a spacious room in Harvard Yard, was forced to rent a home from an African American woman on Flagg Street, near where Mather House stands today...
...give poor people vouchers instead, you might have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first instituted by Presidents Nixon and Ford and strongly supported by Reagan...
...council passed other bills to reform the terms of the Election Commission, to conduct an annual survey of the students, to support rent control in Harvard-owned apartments in Cambridge and to allow the Harvard Computer Society and Digitas to conduct student services projects on the council's computer...
Something familiar, something to fool ya, something for everyone: the musical is back. In the next week Broadway will welcome three new ones: the Pulitzer-prizewinning Rent, the movie-based Big and the tap-a-thon Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Meanwhile, there's a pair of revivals--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The King and I--to prove Broadway can still dance, sing, touch the heart and crack the best old jokes...
Next fall, students will be able to have a microwave in their room--provided they pay approximately $85 per semester to rent a "MicroFridge" from Harvard Student Agencies...