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Goodstein spent most of the teach-in at New York's Fordham University, where students and faculty had organized a daylong series of lectures on the environment, ranging from the restoration of the polluted Bronx River to the ins and outs of international climate treaties. At Fordham, I met one of Goodstein's foot soldiers, 19-year-old sophomore Thomas Zellers, who helped organize the Focus the Nation teach-in. Attendance at the teach-in there was a bit light, and Zellers noted that drafting college students into a political movement on global warming - or almost any issue...
...once I arrived, I came to understand that Harvard’s pronounced lack of “collegiate gothic” architecture is far from a liability. Reverend Peter Gomes pointed out during my Freshman Week that Harvard’s river Houses and many of its classrooms, which emulate the Georgian architecture of its oldest buildings, seem not drab but elegant, because they are built in a style adherent to our institutional history and tradition, not an appropriated European model. And in the Yard where the first glance meets monotony, a close look reveals that the buildings have...
With the signing of an agreement that will allow the University to begin construction on the first project across the river only days away, Allston officials say they hope Harvard will continue to provide the neighborhood with benefits after the ink on the pact has dried...
...architectural firm of Graduate School of Design Professor Alex Krieger won a competition to redesign the Shanghai Bund, a stretch of historic buildings along the Huangpu river, in time for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai...
...Bund currently boasts a promenade on a levee with a view of the Huangpu River. But the walkway is now separated from the city by a 10-lane highway, which poses an obstacle for direct human interaction with the waterfront...