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...Around the same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers - and schemes to get rid of them. But now traffic is so bad - costing the European Union €40 billion a year - that some cities are getting serious about fighting back. This week, London careers into Europe's most radical traffic-control experiment of the past half-century. Every vehicle that enters...
...student petition for saving shopping period has already garnered 1,250 signatures, demonstrating widespread student opposition to the preregistration scheme. Even more undergraduates need to speak up and write to administrators and faculty in support of this honorable campaign to keep a fundamental part of the Harvard experience intact...
...asking. In Jennifer Government (Doubleday; 321 pages), Max Barry imagines a near future in which our lives are so dominated by our employers that we take their last names. Barry's hero, Hack Nike (see how it works?), is a low-level cubicle dweller who gets embroiled in a scheme to stage a series of killings as a promotional gimmick to sell sneakers: it's murder as advertising. Out to stop the plan is Jennifer Government, a beleaguered agent of a Federal Government so cash strapped that she has to hit up the victims for money before she can fight...
Harvard’s second-half defense showed visible improvement as it befuddled the Yale offensive scheme, possession after possession. The Elis shot a miserable 24 percent from the field in the second frame, as the Crimson tightened its defensive coils...
...world's tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above the city. This is architecture that is both cerebral and emotional. The scheme moves vertically from grief through commerce to spirit. Burdens are acknowledged. Burdens...