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...approval of individual Allston projects would prevent a comprehensive understanding of the long-term environmental impact of Harvard’s Allston expansion. While their concern is understandable, it would be unrealistic to ask Harvard to plan all 20 years of construction in exacting detail before moving the first stone, and the Allston Development Group may very well learn important lessons while building the first structure. Allston residents further commented that Harvard’s definition of “environment” is too narrow, asking Harvard to make stronger commitments to green space and to traffic concerns . . . . Some...
...seemed as if the police were ready to take up the challenge. Someone threw a stone - though it's not clear who - and the police returned the volley with rocks of their own. Some witnesses say they saw police passing around bags of rocks, others say they simply picked them up from nearby piles of rubble. Within minutes the fighting escalated. Security forces fired tear gas shells directly into the crowd, causing a panicked stampede. The police, protected by helmets, body armor and shields, kept up the barrage of stones and gas until they forced the protesters across the street...
...literature professor Julie A. Buckler, former provost and political economy professor Jerry R. Green, philosophy professor Edward J. Hall, history professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham, government professor Jennifer L. Hochschild, natural history professor Andrew H. Knoll, molecular genetics professor Andrew W. Murray, and engineering and applied mathematics professor Howard A. Stone. The student members of the committee are John M. Sheffield II ’09, Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, and Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
What does Wall Street see in the company? The same thing that transformed Starbucks and Cold Stone Creamery from local favorites into global brands--a knack for taking an ordinary but well-liked food and tarting it up into a premium product. Dale and Thomas sells more than 100 popcorn flavors, from Chocolate Chunk N' Caramel to Sweet Georgia Pecan, and each bowl can by customized with "pop-ins"--sweets like fudge or jelly beans that customers can add to their popcorn. A regular- size bag with the works costs about $6. "Popcorn is a commodity," Struhl says. "We made...
...correspondingly intense artistic extremes. I was familiar with the city’s exceptionally beautiful sights as well as its tough exterior.At a few select, walled-off sites—like the Temple of Heaven or the Imperial Palace—monolithic concrete buildings are replaced by carefully cut stone and manicured gardens, protected by guards and signs pleading with passersby to “please protect the cultural relics.” These sites of officially recognized art stand opposite the everyday lives of Beijingers, making the name “Forbidden City” quite literal.I understood that...