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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Begun eventually found a job--pushing a wheelbarrow at a construction site. But nevertheless, one day a K.G.B. agent came to his home, arrested and imprisoned him without filing charges. Although he was released a week later, when he returned to work he learned he had been fired. The reason: he had skipped a week of work. Begun explained that he had been in jail, but his supervisor demanded written confirmation. The administration at the jailhouse refused to write such a note, saying that there was no evidence to support Begun's claim. It was back to square...
...grandiose ambitions. About half of its buildings are temporary and can be dismantled and their parts sold when the fair closes. Even the trees are planted in wire baskets for possible later transplanting. Yet none of this impermanence detracts from the fun, let alone the ingenious beautification of a site that was a messy, abandoned railroad yard when groundbreaking started a little more than two years...
...time the conference ended last Sunday, the student organizers had received five death threats from anonymous callers, the Harvard Police had conducted a security sweep of the conference site in Austin Hall, and 150 students had gathered outside Paine Hall to join a "silent vigil" triggered by one of the conference's speakers...
...land, known as Parcel 1b. formerly served as the site of MBTA carbarns and was once slated to house the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. But a coalition of neighborhood groups fearing increased congestion in the Square forced the library project out of Cambridge--and onto Boston's Columbia Point--after prolonged negotiations...
Construction on the University Place site, previously used as a parking lot, began last week. When the Parcel 1b work gets under way this summer, the Square will have temporarily lost a total of about 700 parking spaces...