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...return, residents promised not to seek a City Council moratorium on Harvard’s northward expansion. For the University, this is quite a relief. Harvard emerged this fall from a three-year fight with Riverside neighborhood activists, who petitioned the council to set stringent height limits on University buildings in the area. Harvard reached a deal with the council in October, but the University’s concessions to residents carried a hefty $15 million price tag, according to one council member. So not only did Harvard’s deal with Agassiz residents generate good will...
Rochel’s discontent with Lubavitch’s stringent customs led her to join other questioners at an infamous 888 Montgomery St. apartment, where poets would recite verses as a joint made its way around the room. Finding others who also questioned Lubavitch saved Rochel from a dangerous bout with depression that nearly ended in suicide, Levine says. The options for such questioners are not many...
...least two things need to change. First, the two-thirds vote requirement is too stringent, and should be relaxed. The typical council representative during the last general election was elected with two or three dozen first-place votes out of a turnout of about 100. A suitably intransigent voting bloc could collude to keep their favored representative in office even if the majority of the district desired otherwise, but could not muster the requisite supermajority...
While Harvard adopted a “code of conduct” for labor standards when it joined the FLA as a founding member, HSAS pushed the University to adopt a more stringent code, which Mackinnon said former University President Neil L. Rudenstine indicated he was sympathetic...
...obstacles in the way of a full and meaningful investigation into the circumstances of the Sept. 11 attacks. The official rationale behind the decision—that much of the content of the PDBs is irrelevant to the investigation—overlooks two significant problems inherent in such a stringent level of White House censorship. First, context is a crucial issue, as Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind., one of two members of the panel to publicly criticize the agreement, noted: “How can you get the context of how al Qaeda or Afghanistan is being prioritized...