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...concrete pourings have been completed thus far, and that roughly 15 loads remain. The final concrete slab covering most of the site will be roughly 12 inches thick and will be coated with waterproofing material. LeFlore said that the large red cranes had been dismantled in the summer, but smaller, mobile cranes will continue to be used on site. But Harry Mattison, a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force, said that he did not believe the University was being forthright with its construction plans. “The word ‘stopped’ isn?...
...order to hit the ground running after a nice, long summer, let’s consider a hypothetical. A group of representatives from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) walk into an advertising agency—say the firm from “Mad Men.” John Hamm’s character sits staring across the table, trying to act like he doesn’t want a cigarette, and he says to PETA, “Now tell me, who exactly would you like your ads to target? Because as of now, it seems...
Nina Jain ’11 spent last summer trekking door-to-door through a Delhi slum, trying to find out which of the impoverished residents suffered from tuberculosis. There was one problem, though. She didn’t speak Hindi...
When an organization can’t raise any money, it renames the campaign and hopes for a miracle. At least, that seems the plan of the UC Capital Campaign, which has split off its fundraising campaign from the UC after a lackluster performance over the summer that generated a paltry $700 for a student center. It’s not surprising that the UC found itself in this unenviable position in the first place: We were skeptical when we heard the campaign’s lofty aspirations last spring and have never expected much from the plan. The Capital...
When Francisco N. Alvarez ’11 decided to work at a Miami hospital the summer after his freshman year, he had no idea that a year later, he would be present at Spain’s first cardiac transplant employing the Berlin Heart device, a German-made artificial heart...