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Harvard has the opportunity to sell these buildings according to the value they bore when they were purchased and maintained as rent-controlled buildings. The sale of these buildings to competent landlords committed to the continuing availability of affordable housing in Cambridge would be no loss to Harvard and would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Should Sell Responsibly | 1/5/1996 | See Source »

YOUR ARTICLE STRENGTHENS A BELIEF I have long held, that human beings are a singularly vicious, selfish and shortsighted species whose status as rulers of the world seems to contradict Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Continued disregard of the planet we live on will surely cause us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1995 | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

"Governor Weld is being shortsighted and unrealistic as to what these cuts will do to the Massachusetts economy," he said.

Author: By Gregory F. Corbett, | Title: Kennedy Blasts GOP's Medicare Cuts | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

Visiting San Francisco to observe the 50th anniversary of the United Nations at its birthplace, President Clinton criticized its bureacracy and drift even as he defended the organization from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others in Congress who want to slash U.S. funding and support of peacekeeping operations. "Over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.N.'S MIDLIFE CRISIS | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

Even plays' titles help to provoke discussion--kiosk scanners must confront loaded and sometimes uncomfortable titles like "FOB" (Fresh Off the Boat). "Yellow Fever" and "The Trial of One Shortsighted Black Woman."

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: CREATING COMMUNITY | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

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