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Being an athlete at one of the most competitive academic institutions in the country is a daunting task...
...community almost without notice,” said Bruce E. Houghton, local resident and president of his namesake chemical corporation. which operates a plant in Allston. “Where was that going to be discussed?” Houghton, a member of the mayor-appointed Harvard Allston Task Force, said that the BRA had failed to critically examine the Harvard-sponsored plan to relocate hundreds of residents to an eight-acre swath of housing to be built in North Allston. Now, with the City on the verge of approving the project—the stipulated community input period comes...
...residents, when it’s been pretty clear that what they’re looking for is a decent place to live, a way to stay in the community, and [a way to] stay as a community,” says John Cusack, a North Allston resident and Task Force member. “It’s just that in order to do the best job you can, to get it as right as possible, you got to take your time. It’s horrible but you have...
...Instead, that task has fallen to small, independent think tanks and policy institutes. Their efforts to counter the claims of opponents of the bill have produced eye-opening reports. The most important of these, issued last week by the Institute for Policy Integrity, conducts a cost-benefit analysis of the Waxman-Markey program and finds, counter to objections, that the bill would have a net benefit of as much as $5.2 trillion. The report included a median projection for net benefits of $1.2 trillion and found that even more stringency could actually be more beneficial. Their estimations also ignore...
...women for failing to assume a suitably feminist outlook have by and large failed. Take, for example, Naomi Wolf, author of “The Beauty Myth.” The phrase describes the idealized standard of beauty whose realization is upheld in Western culture as the end-all task of being female. Yet, despite the myth’s devastating implications—self-loathing, eating disorders, bodily mutilation via plastic surgery—no woman wants to be patronized into giving up eyeliner and lipstick. Nor does she want to be told that her low-cut blouse shows...