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Sometime next month, MIT will select a developer for 27 acres of property that it owns in Cambridgeport. Under the current codes, MIT, which is the single largest landowner in the neighborhood, can build virtually whatever it wants on the property, a prospect which understandably upsets many neighborhood residents and city officials. The conflict is by no means a new one: The residents and MIT have been stalemated for ten years over the question of what should be built. Still, as the deadline for action approaches, the council has not acted...
Harvard undergraduates have received unsolicited suggestions this term on which classes to select thanks to a self styled group of radical Leftist students who are distributing a list of recommended courses...
...what Harvard somewhat misleadingly calls its core curriculum. Inaugurated in 1979, after much faculty debate and amid considerable press attention, this core turned out to be a rather sprawling collection of 122 different courses, ranging from Abstraction in Modern Art to Microbial and Molecular Biology. Students are required to select eight of their 32 courses from five general areas of knowledge (science, history, the arts, ethics and foreign cultures...
...other men that American women were growing serious about taking care of themselves. (There were no beauty parlors in Muncie, Ind., in 1900, the sociologist Lynds found; by 1928 there were seven.) Nast also hit upon the heretical notion that a publication could prosper by appealing to a small, select audience. If he seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known round the office as Brogue...
...Steinbrenner's Yankees now display certain characteristics of Rome's later days? Does the owner rant like Caligula? Will he select his horse to be the next manager? One drives up the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, and in the summer dusk one may see a few blazes set by arsonists burning down the ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast...