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Another element of this cooperative effort will be to replace the Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT) clothing store's building with a taller office building. Replacing that building, which is the closest to Brattle Square, would have to be done in partnership with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which owns the air rights to the structure because a tunnel for Harvard Square buses runs underneath...
Certainly not all of Bork's rulings come out conservative. He authored an opinion for a three-member panel that ordered the Washington, D.C., transit authority to allow an artist to rent display space in subway stations for a poster critical of Reagan. But have his principles sometimes shifted to serve his ideological preferences? In attacking a proposed civil rights law in 1963, he wrote that it would be regrettable if "justifiable abhorrence of racial discrimination ((should)) result in legislation by which the morals of the majority are self-righteously imposed upon a minority...
Another element of this cooperative effort will be to replace the Cherry, Webb and Touraine (CWT) clothing store's building with a taller office building. Replacing that building, which is the closest to Brattle Square, would have to be done in partnership with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which owns the air rights to the structure because a tunnel for Harvard Square buses runs underneath...
...transit authority replied that musicians setting up shop on densely packed platforms posed safety problems. Said a spokesman: "We do not allow any unsanctioned playing of instruments on the subways." Carew-Reid chose to challenge the constitutionality of the authority's rules against his unsanctioned playing. The T.A. dropped all charges against Carew-Reid in January, stopped issuing summonses to musicians (unless they are found to be blocking an entrance or interfering with train operations -- rare instances, both), and said it would rewrite its regulations...
...measure of an advanced civilization is how it treats its worst people, not its best," he says, rising from his bench. "Those who have the most reason to celebrate a Constitution are the poorest. The people in the BART ((Bay Area Rapid Transit)) station. That gentleman asleep on that bench over there." Then Lawson strides away, a man with a purpose...