Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes shocked the administration by opposing its plan to build a new hotel on the Mass. Ave. Gulf Station site. Landes pointed out that in light of the shortage of FAS library and office space, the site should be used for academic purposes...
...ensuing controversy highlighted the struggle between the academic pursuits of this University and its constant search for economic gain. Bok later agreed to consult FAS on future real estate plans, and it was decided last month--after Cambridge citizens complained that the University demolished the station before it could be declared a landmark--that FAS would control the former Gulf Station site...
...addition to the Gulf Station debate, the administration and FAS have been accused of watering down a proposal to improve hiring of minority and women faculty members...
Harvard will not proceed with litigation against the city of Cambridge over last June's rezoning of the former Gulf station site on Mass. Ave., University officials announced earlier this month...
...Whether it is dead, dying or merely having a bad decade, Communism, in the sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about it, has been around for only 70-odd years. There were plenty of predatory tyrannies before Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, and there will be plenty more even if a Romanov is restored to a Kremlin throne. Genghis Khan and Caligula didn't need a course in dialectical materialism to make their periods of history interesting, and neither do today's bad actors -- or tomorrow...