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Harvard’s request to build a tunnel under Cambridge Street has created an unusual confrontation between the city of Cambridge and the University. Since a City Council hearing on April 3, the proposal to link the two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) has been stalled by a council vote for further study and negotiations with neighbors. The outcome of this impasse is very much in doubt...
...instance, the first poem Sacks read, entitled “Head,” uses a poetic treatment of an African sculpture to reflect on the continent as a whole. The poem, Sacks told the audience, was written at the request of officials at Yale who solicited work from various poets on art in their Museums for the University’s tercentennial celebrtation. Another of the poems Sacks performed reflects the speaker’s experience of walking along a continental divide, exploring the scenery while expressing his emotional and intellectual response to literally being at the crossroads...
Prior to the meeting of the Pi Eta Speakers Associates April 18, 2001, the Pi Eta members put together a special agenda. Among the orders of business were to amend the bylaws to clear the board of Sigma Chis, request the resignation of Sigma Chis and conduct an election to fill all of the vacancies in the officership of the corporation. The Sigma Chi delegation walked out and filed a suit against the Pi Etas in Middlesex Superior Court the next day. Not to be outdone, Pi Eta filed a countersuit against Sigma...
...story was solicited by Van de Velde himself. He had been a student in a graduate journalism course Gura taught at Quinnipiac College and e-mailed Gura two years after the murder to request that the reporter evaluate his case...
...instead. The Bush administration’s repeal of the estate tax will take place in 2010, but the tax will then come back into force on Jan. 1, 2011. This bizarre sequence of events provides the perfect test case for the death-and-taxes theory. Will prospective heirs request extraordinary measures as 2009 draws to a close? And what horrors might take place in the waning hours...