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...understand exactly how a large-scale renovation would affect the campus, we can look to our rival: Yale. After doing a partial renovation of Calhoun College, one of its residential colleges, in the summer of 1989, Yale realized that renovating was much more complicated than expected. And so, it was back to the drawing board for the community college. The resulting 15-month renovations of each residential college was the solutions, and Yale is now on its ninth project, the reconstruction of Jonathan Edwards College...
...heights of the buildings, which range from four to 10 stories in the proposed design. However, Hill did say that the space constraint was a major factor behind the decision to build high. “If we had more land, definitely we would be able to bring the scale down, and we could definitely have more green space,” he said, “but we have to work with the area that we have.” Several residents said that they were disappointed that Harvard had stepped away from negotiations with the community once...
...regime's get-out-the-vote effort, however, may have come from an unlikely quarter: President Bush, who last week expressed the hope that the Iranian people would stay away from the polls. That news is more likely to inflame nationalist passions and swell the turnout. So, while large-scale disqualification of opposition candidates mean that the results won't hold too many surprises, voter turnout still could...
...clearly eroding Sarkozy’s credibility in the eyes of the French people. His approval ratings plummeted to below 50 percent for the first time since his election in May 2007. Sarkozy’s approval ratings have followed a definite downward trend since the series of large-scale strikes against his labor and education reforms in the fall of 2007. Various groups of public employees including teachers, civil servants, and public transport workers responded with anger to Sarkozy’s plan to slash France’s generous pensions. Perhaps their anger had something to do with...
...begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow's orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in the 1990s and has de facto integrated with Armenia. Last week, for the first time in years, Azeri and Armenian forces clashed in a full scale fighting in Karabakh...