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...Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount owner Viacom, told the Wall Street Journal, which first broke the story on its website, that Cruise's "recent conduct has not been acceptable." Redstone cited the actor's public comments defending Scientology and criticizing psychiatry. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Redstone is quoted as saying in the Journal...
...Student Assembly as well as the tepid politics of the Democratic Party. That Harvard seems prone to a glacial pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature concentration. And lastly, Harvard’s efforts at land development yielded controversy at the Sumner Road apartments, a story that bears no small similarity to the recent dispute over the Charlesview apartments in Allston. George Santayana’s old adage comes to mind, that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If there...
...maintain a real estate firm which, in its dealings with its tenants and the city, uses none of the delicacy Harvard applied to questions of genes and chromosomes. As an example, this winter saw the end of a two-year-long drama with the departure of tenants from 7 Sumner Rd. The last few residents finally gave up their legal battle and departed, weary of fighting for their homes against a University that was willing to pour thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of legal talent into evicting them. Many Harvard employees, angry at anti-union campaigns, have complained...
...that would manage Harvard’s non-academic property holdings.Within three years, HRE, under the stewardship of Sally Zeckhauser, had angered tenants so much that they formed the Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) to protest allegedly unfair rent increases and negligent management.The tensions came to a head at 7 Sumner Rd., an apartment building that the Graduate School of Design bought in the 1970s with the intention of converting into offices.The University began emptying the building by leaving apartments vacant when their tenants left. By February of 1981, the building was empty—except for two tenants whom Harvard...
...civilian alerted an officer to a “suspicious person” in the parking lot at 18 Sumner Road. The officer located the person, and allowed him to depart without incident...