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...tenuous, and that the University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
Alpert—who is co-leader of a project that started over a year ago to make Allston a “rat-free zone”—added that by creating outreach programs to educate community members and to provide rat-proof trash containers, Harvard has been “trying to be good neighbors” and actually “went out of [its] way” to rid a local church of rats...
Some Allston residents, including Task Force members Ray Mellone and John Cusack, agreed that the University and city have made a substantial effort to deal with the rat issue, and that responsible trash disposal...
...mighty have been hit with some virulent strain of arrogance common to those told that they were Too Big to Fail. First the auto executives swooped into town in their Gulfstream IVs to ask for $25 billion; then Merrill Lynch superman John Thain spent $1,405 on a trash can and suggested he deserved a $40 million bonus for losing $15 billion in the fourth quarter. Even Tom Daschle, whose loyal Senate brethren were set to confirm him to the Cabinet, discovered the radioactivity of the phrase "unpaid taxes on his chauffeured limousine...
That walk is strewn with trash - stinking tangles of plastic and organic matter and decaying animal carcasses fester on sidewalks. Until recently, the Basrawis' focus was on security. Since autumn, private polling undertaken by the British government has seen the poor state of public services and infrastructure leapfrog that concern; phone-in programs on the local Al-Mirbad radio station are dominated by discussions of sewage and the electrical brownouts that hit the city several times every...