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...project was badly hurt, Harvard Square developers and brokers argue, by a six-year battle with local residents over the size and scope of the building. The project did not break ground until early 1990. By then the recession had set in, and the Massachusetts Miracle was a distant memory...
...third Gordon daughter, Sheila, experiments with LSD, marries her high school sweetheart, dumps him and begins a six-year course of psychotherapy. Ricky, who is gay, has a tormented childhood and suffers from LSD flashbacks and bulimia. A musician and composer, he is also a passionate believer in New Age fads, especially the healing powers of crystals. He has watched several friends die of AIDS and has no intention of finding out whether he is infected...
More open, but far less powerful, is the Board of Overseers, the University's secondary governing board. Elected each year by alumni to serve six-year terms, the overseers meet to form committees, approve appointments, from committees, discuss issues and from committees...
...overseers will serve six-year terms except Brooks, who will complete the remaining two years of the term of Richard A. Smith '46. Smith left to the Board last December to join the Harvard Corporation...
...that while the recession has been technically over for a year, this doesn't feel much like a recovery -- though many economists warn that this may be as good as it's going to get. Unemployment remains stubbornly high; the jobless rate continues to hover at 7.3%, a six-year peak, and experts say it will take a more robust rate of growth to make a dent in that figure. Typical recoveries since World War II have boasted growth rates of 5% and sometimes higher; by contrast, the current 2% rate is paltry, and unlikely to improve soon. Michael Boskin...