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Harvard ain’t a saint, but it is no Goliath either. And its perpetually dissatisfied neighbors are no Davids. Oversimplified and unforgiving, the very us/them dichotomy lets Harvard affiliates overlook the College’s reliance on Cambridge as it allows Cantabs to neglect Harvard’s stunning community resources. We cannot afford to have bullheaded attitudes prevail at the negotiating table; community building must be a cooperative endeavor...
Harvard ain’t a saint, but it is no Goliath either. And its perpetually dissatisfied neighbors are no Davids. Oversimplified and unforgiving, the very us/them dichotomy lets Harvard affiliates overlook the College’s reliance on Cambridge as it allows Cantabs to neglect Harvard’s stunning community resources. We cannot afford to have bullheaded attitudes prevail at the negotiating table; community building must be a cooperative endeavor...
...SUED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 72, U.S. film star, over the ownership of Vincent Van Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy; in Los Angeles. The descendants of Margarete Mauthner, a Jewish refugee who fled from Berlin to South Africa in 1939, say there is evidence the 1889 painting was confiscated from Mauthner by the Nazis. Taylor claims the painting, which she bought at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 and which is now worth $15 million, was sold by Mauthner in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, "for financial reasons...
...that make superb?and free?locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Am?lie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette's dinner?complete with tables, linen, candelabras and evening gowns?on a cobblestone quai of the Ile Saint-Louis. "We wanted something original with a superb view," she recalls. "It was a beautiful evening. We watched N?tre Dame light up and the sun set over the old bridges." Further north, the Canal St.-Martin attracts a bohemian, red-checked tablecloth crowd, while the Pont des Arts footbridge spanning...
...vice versa. Most Americans respect Kerry's military service and do not doubt his personal courage and toughness. It's a pity Kerry's policies do not reflect his personal attributes. Dave Werman St. Charles, Illinois, U.S. A Strategic Divorce On August 28 and 29, the town of Saint-Fargeau Ponthierry in Seine-et-Marne, France, commemorated the 60th Anniversary of its Liberation by General Patton's Third Army, and celebrated the historical French-American friendship. Current difference of analysis in foreign policies and strategic issues [Aug. 30] cannot overlook the popular and genuine demonstration of friendship expressed on both...