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...very favorite memories are of that most beautiful dogwood tree beside Apthorp House, the view (before Quincy House was built) from the Grolier down to the River, and, my very best, the students streaming down Plympton Street...
...objectives and implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations are now up and running. If one compares the air quality of Hong Kong and Seoul in recent years...
...wake of the rape, the security of the campus came under heavy scrutiny, especially in the Quad area and on the walk from the river Houses to the Quad. Then-master of North House Hanna Hastings charged the University with inadequately providing for the safety of Quad residents. In particular, Hastings pointed out that only one guard was employed to patrol all three Quad Houses, while each of the river Houses had its own guard and six guards roamed Harvard Yard, who mostly keep bicycle riders from mounting their bikes in the Yard...
After pulling out of Fallujah, Kilo returned home, but by last summer it was gearing up for another tour in Iraq. The unit remained about 65% intact from the year before. In October it moved as part of a roughly 900-man Marine battalion into Haditha, a Euphrates River--valley farm town that had been in insurgents' hands for half a year. At first, the Marines encountered almost no resistance. According to Read, Kilo took up residence in a municipal building as other Marine companies spread out around town. But over time, the other units were called to duty elsewhere...
...vision that Pusey articulated in 1956 resulted in construction that allowed the University to increase its enrollment from roughly 1,150 per class in the mid-fifties to about 1,600 two decade later. In 1959, the University opened Quincy House, the first House built since the original seven river Houses in the 1930s. Radcliffe’s North and South dormitories, now known as Pforzheimer and Cabot, respectively, were converted to Houses in 1961. Construction on the tenth house, Mather, was scheduled to begin in 1963, but it took the University an additional four years...