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...that they eventually be given to the museum. When Altmann first asserted her claim for restitution in 1998, Viennese officials argued that Austria had honored the original owner's intent. But Altmann said that the paintings rightfully still belonged to her family and that when her aunt made her "request," she could not have imagined that they would end up in the hands of a government that participated in the Holocaust. In 1998 Altmann wrote to an advisory board of the government and offered to sell Austria the portrait if they returned other paintings to her. She says she never...
Warshauer wanted to start up a poker club at Harvard last year, but said that his request did not get approved because the City of Cambridge does not allow “games of chance...
...recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to deny The Crimson access to incident reports produced by officers of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is disappointing. While we respect the legal rationale that led the SJC to deny The Crimson its request for free access to this information, the quality of our coverage of campus events heavily depends on our ability to acquire HUPD records that relate to matters of campus-wide importance. To that end, we support efforts by Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios and Representative Timothy J. Toomey to pass legislation that will oblige...
Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 adjourned the final council meeting of his tenure on Saturday evening to a standing ovation from council members and friends. The meeting was more festive than usual. Although a request over the UC’s e-mail list to have cocktails before the event went unanswered, members ceremoniously popped the corks of several champagne bottles during the evening’s farewell speeches. About a dozen of Glazer’s friends and blockmates wore pink “Viva el Presidente” t-shirts with Glazer?...
...Thereafter, however, the president’s senior staff and communications office instituted an unofficial “media blackout,” three people familiar with the strategy said, cutting back on Summers’ public appearances and denying virtually every request for an interview through the end of May. Inside Mass. Hall, but not in front of Summers, the new media policy was jokingly called, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything...