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...argued in the past that Lamont needs to close in time for employees who rely on subway transit home to catch their train. The Red Line subway that passes under Harvard Square, however, closes early enough that the current 12:45 a.m. closing time must still be prohibitively late for library workers who ride it. When Brown University extended the hours of its Rockefeller Library, it found that it could do so by keeping just one security guard and two student clerks working until the library’s new 2 a.m. closing—most employees leave at midnight...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Matter of Time | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Citing Cambridge’s transportation plan to integrate bicycle paths, pedestrian walkways and public transit, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney presented the city an award for “smart growth” at a State House ceremony last month...

Author: By Eric Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Wins Growth Award | 12/8/2004 | See Source »

...once California gets its fair share from Washington, Arnold could direct the klieg lights where they really belong—on preparing California for the future, and abolishing confusing voter initiatives that mandate irresponsible spending increases and guarantee fiscal insanity. And he could target investments in classrooms and mass transit, fix a broken workers’ compensation system, and help attract back the jobs that are fleeing for less expensive states. But he cannot be The People’s Governor until he stops just acting to fix the people’s government...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: Terminating California's Future | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...Proportion of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s who have been groped on Tokyo's transit system, according to a government poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...world's worst violator. The self-described human-rights champions who run South Korea these days will be shamefully AWOL in this fight, but that won't matter. South Korea's constitution offers citizenship to anyone who comes in from the North. If the U.S. can help arrange a transit route for refugees through China, the exodus will begin. When that happens, look for a better class of dictator in Pyongyang?just as the mass movements in 1989 improved the quality of governance in the former German Democratic Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Mr. Nice Guy | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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