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Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Class of 1877) decided during his presidency to raise a President's House on the Yard site where three of his 19th-century predecessors lived. In 1912, he commissioned his brother to design the building, and presented the $155,000 project as a gift to the University...
...wayward. He had harsh words for Christians in Nicaragua who have tried to forge a new church compatible with the aims of the avowedly Marxist Sandinista government and rebuked clergy who have neglected their priestly office to serve the state. Angered that no cross was placed at the site of an outdoor Mass in Managua, he deliberately held his own staff, tipped with a cross, high above the heads of Sandinista leaders seated on the platform. As John Paul delivered his homily, he waved the text defiantly in the air, sometimes shouting the words, as if to prove that...
Because this launch site is farther north than Cape Canaveral, spacecraft get less of a boost from the earth's rotation (whose velocity is highest at the equator) and thus need more power on liftoff...
...that the main subject of the investigation, the agency's "Superfund"--money designated to help clean up hazardous waste dumps--had been turned into a political weapon. One particularly glaring example is the convincing charge that Superfund dollars were diverted from a project to clean up a toxic waste site in California to damage former governor Jerry Brown's 1982 Senate attempt...
Both groups vocally protested the original plans to build a massive retail and hotel complex on Parcel lb. The developer subsequently agreed to change his plans, and work on the site began earlier this year...