Word: skirmished
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...block Harvard’s creeping expansion into their neighborhoods. On Wednesday, the Cambridge Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to construct a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street that would link the two buildings that will compose the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). The latest skirmish over a tunnel has been another example of Cambridge activists’ knee-jerk disapproval of all Harvard construction, even when the community stands to benefit...
However, upon further reflection I became troubled and truly began to wonder if she had heard of that small skirmish in Europe and the Pacific a half century ago? Wasn’t it the United States military that helped preserve our freedom by fighting the very men who embodied fascism? It was a disappointing realization that some in the Harvard community equate U.S. military men and women with the Hitler’s Gestapo and Mussolini’s Italian Army...
...most are not reported because families would rather pay ransom than deal with the police?and firefights in the south have laid waste to the tourism industry. And now the international war on terrorism has come to her shores, but the possibility of a victory in the long-running skirmish against Abu Sayyaf has been complicated by assertions that by inviting foreign troops on Philippine soil, she has violated the constitution (see following story). It is the latest, and perhaps the largest, issue through which she could define her presidency?or find herself overwhelmed...
...example, King brings up state funding for the Community Preservation Act—which will bring about $5 million to the city for affordable housing, open space creation, and preservation of historic buildings if voters approve the measure Nov. 6. King says there will likely be quite an activist skirmish over how much money will go to each purpose...
Bash said yesterday that he did not intend to start the e-mail skirmish that ensued over the issue...