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Lewis has been recently and frequently wining and dining the obligatory Harvard donors, in search of funds for a major overhaul that could transform the MAC into what it should be—a masterfully designed, 24-hour accessible, recreational fitness facility and central home of student office space. The MAC is named for Peter L. Malkin ’55 (giver of a paltry $4 million in 1985 for the building’s last major facelift) and anyone who has their name on a building will not want it taken off. I bet you a draft...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, | Title: One Building, One Man | 2/12/2002 | See Source »

...actually worth it? Perhaps. If heads weren’t turning before, they certainly are now. And with the proper marketing and media strategy, they might even transform their fall from social grace into quite a cushy book deal. For just as Harvard protects its students from the harsh consequences of the real world, the real world shields its high-profile criminals from their punishment with publicity and money...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, HUMANITIES | Title: You Pay for What You Get | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...Manh change a culture of opacity? Many think so?if he can convince the rest of his party to go along. In nine years, Manh helped transform the National Assembly from a rubber stamp into a reasonably representative legislature with televised sessions. "If he can do just half of what he accomplished in the National Assembly," says former U.S. Ambassador Douglas ("Pete") Peterson, "he can move Vietnam along the road of building a modern economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Manh | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...community plan includes measures to widen Allston’s two largest streets —Western Ave. and North Harvard St.—and transform them into pedestrian-friendly boulevards lined with trees, benches, and retail stores. At the intersection of the two streets—currently home to a gas station, Dunkin’ Donuts, industrial lots, and the low-income housing Charles View Apartments complex—the plan proposes a new “Allston Square,” a commercial center similar to Harvard Square that will serve as a transition between Harvard?...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Residents Voice Worries Over Housing | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

...Arafat for failing to stop the latest attacks, they are unlikely to change the basic deadlock. Few Israeli commentators these days believe that, almost one year after being elected on promises to stamp out Palestinian violence and ensure Israeli security, Sharon has a political or military program that can transform the violent face-off into a decisive defeat of the intifada. While the term is still used, the current violence has little in common with the original intifada, in which masses of youths armed mostly with stones and molotov cocktails confronted Israeli troops in West Bank towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

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