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Engineers for the MDC project have decided to shorten the proposed tunnel under Boylston Street by about 20 feet. In a recent vote the MDC also asserted that they would replant upstream from the Larz Anderson Bridge many of the 19 sycamores due to be removed...
Kazantzakis's personal philosophy of life dominates the book. His prologue explains that he is writing a "travel journey of my soul": he hopes that "I shall be able to help shorten the agony of other kindred spirits who have set out along the same path." Sometimes his despair or joy seems as vague and unexplained as many of the philosophical passages...
...Dean has already indicated the program's advantages for graduate students, at least for those in History. It will assure students of financial support until they get their Ph.D.'s. It will shorten the time required to get a Ph.D. to five years. And it will guarantee students two years of teaching experience by the time they do get their degrees. All these advantages are built into the new program...
...tensions of responsibility do not necessarily shorten a man's life, the researchers conclude. "Stress cannot be measured or described by the external circumstances with which a man must contend, but rather by his reaction to these circumstances. One man's stress may be another man's pleasure...
...R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. These raids were intended to force Germany to surrender by destroying civilian morale. But Hans Rumpf, a brigadier general who headed German civil defense during the war, is the latest of a number of military analysts to conclude that the raids did nothing to shorten the war and unnecessarily took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, largely women and children. Strategic bombing, British Military Historian Liddell Hart has written, was the "most uncivilized method of warfare the world has known since the Mongol devastations...