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...center formerly known as Knafel came under fire again last night—this time for a tunnel crucial to its current design. The tunnel, under busy Cambridge Street, would connect the two main buildings of the renamed Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) planned for the northeast fringe of campus...
...neighbors I have met understand the reality of [CGIS],” said William C. Craig, a retired civil engineer who lives nearby the planned center. “[Harvard is] going to throw that project away just because of a tunnel? I can’t conceive...
Though he said he realizes CGIS is “guaranteed” to go forward with or without an underground connector, Craig plans to keep up the fight against the tunnel...
Though plans for the center itself have been settled, the tunnel remains a contentious issue standing in the way of Harvard’s most prominent building project in Cambridge. To build the tunnel numerous underground utilities would have to be rerouted. Cambridge Street would not be closed during construction, but temporary bridges would be erected across the street to carry traffic and pedestrians...
...since I came from such a large family and just figured that I would have a lot of kids," she says. She reacted by becoming overprotective of Michael Jr., now 13. When he was two years old, the Raabs had a fence put in their backyard. Afraid Michael would tunnel under it, she had special wiring put in the ground to prevent this from happening...