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...Faust added Harvard will also slow planning for the rest of its Allston construction—which has been slated to occur over a 50-year time span. She said that Harvard will deliver on its previously agreed-upon community benefits, as well as “develop options for interim improvements to [its] existing properties”—which some local residents say Harvard has left undeveloped to Allston’s detriment...
...three, or get an easy bucket, it just takes the wind out of you,” Amaker said.After a soaring Kenyi layup cut the deficit to 12 halfway through the period, Wittman responded with a jumper and a transition three pointer, igniting a 16-6 run over a span of about four minutes. “It’s just demoralizing when they hit those threes, especially when the crowd gets into it,” Housman said.The Big Red took a 24-point lead with 5:40 to play and never looked back, continuing to exhibit excellent...
...recent Pentagon-funded reports have questioned the Navy's carrier-centric strategy. The vessel's huge cost and half-century life span give potential foes like China a "static target" to threaten, a 2007 report said. A smarter option, the study suggests, is to build a Navy of many smaller and simpler ships, which would complicate enemy targeting and give U.S. commanders better intelligence. Nonetheless, the Navy has just begun spending $11 billion to design and build the first in a new class of carriers, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, scheduled to join the fleet...
...entwines the reader and author rather than delineating a separate role for each. This innovative tactic forges a close connection, one which is essential in the limited frame of a short story. Smith’s writing in this collection is honest and open—even in the span of 10 pages, readers may find themselves sympathizing deeply with a character. As she describes a late night phone call or an encounter with a nostalgic man at an empty bar, Smith makes the reader feel almost interchangeable with the characters she creates. The whispered secrets or shared laughter...
...ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” It is a fitting borrowing in a number of ways—both books use the time span of four key days to piece together the meaning of family through four different points of view; both extensively utilize stream-of-consciousness style in order to do so; and both feature sons with mental retardation that gives way to a type of clairvoyance. Phillips gives an explicit...