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...requires that construction begin within 90 days of funding approval, the lag between presidential initiative and groundbreaking is much longer. Before the $2 billion in public works grants could be dished out, the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration had to sift through 24,000 project applications to select 2,000 winners...
...offered the young nation his personal library (which was to be the foundation of the Library of Congress), it contained so many foreign-language books (including numerous "atheistical" works of Voltaire and other French revolutionaries) that some members of Congress opposed its purchase. The Republic of Letters was a select community of those who shared knowledge...
...subject is a complex one, and is also especially controversial because although the Cambridge City council last week extended its moratorium on DNA research one more month, Harvard and MIT are going ahead with facilities designed to house this type of research. A report by a select committee set up by the Cambridge City Council delivered at least week's council meeting recommended that the research be allowed to continue under certain safeguards...
...different" (by definition, atypical) experience, whether by virtue of being assigned to the Quad as a freshman, to an isolated room in distant annexes as a sophomore, or to a four-year House as a sophomore and thereafter. Of course, there are students who willingly and with good reason select these experiences. However, the inescapable fact is that, year after year, there are fewer such students than there are places to be assigned, and that therefore each year many students are assigned against their will. We argue for greater uniformity (or equality) not for its own sake, but because, increasingly...
...problem. Wilson Frost, the black president pro tem of the City Council who had presided in Daley's absence, told reporters, "I am acting mayor." But the city's corporation counsel, William Quinlin, said there was no acting mayor until the City Council met the following week to select...