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...football and basketball facilities are, centrally anyway, limited to considerations of fan environment and overall atmosphere for the spectator. The dimensions of football fields and basketball courts are standard and unaffected by their shoddy surroundings. As far as I’m aware, the grass on the gridiron, while torn up as a result of play, has been properly maintained. The basketball court is not pockmarked by dead spots and warped wood...
Because the White House crowd remained obsessed with Saddam Hussein, they have ignored terrorist threats that really are “grave and gathering.” Failed and conflict-torn states provide safe havens for terrorists, but the Bush administration’s response to crises like Liberia and Sudan has been lackluster and glacially slow. The proliferation of nuclear technology could enable a terrorist network like al Qaeda to develop a bomb, yet the administration failed to sanction Pakistan for pardoning Abdul Qader Khan, the scientist who confessed to selling nuclear weapons technology to Libya, Iran and North...
City Councilor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 quips, “There are some people, I don’t think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
City Councilor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 quips, “There are some people, I don’t think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...don’t want our field torn up, so part of our goal is to try to get a home game [in the NCAA tournament] that weekend so they can’t have it,” Kerr said. “It’s our goal to save Ohiri, and the boys are trying to win the Ivies so we can get a home game...