Word: underground
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Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...
Harvard claimed that it could excavate and replant the garden without causing muchpermanent damage, and that the underground site was the only one that would allow scholars to pass from the main library to the addition without stepping outside...
Last May the University conceded, shelving the underground plan on the condition that "a separate center proves practical," Charles U. Daly, then vice president for government and community affairs, said...
Castro was apparently wrong about direct CIA involvement, which was forcefully denied by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Subsequent investigation has shown that the sabotage was carried out by a fanatic underground network of Cuban exiles known as CORU (Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas), which was organized early this year as an umbrella for diehard anti-Castro activists. Among its founders was a shadowy pediatrician turned terrorist, Dr. Orlando Bosch...
Also on tap for this weekend: Ronnie Laws, Pressure and Band X will be doing a benefit for Ronnie Laws, Pressure and Band X, 8 p.m. Friday at the Berklee Performance Center. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, former denizens of the Cambridge Common turned underground rock stars, will be holding forth--you guessed it, Friday at 8 p.m.--at the Cohen Auditorium of Tufts University, in a benefit for the Clamshell alliance, a group committed to halting the construction of nuclear power plants. Doing anything Friday at 8, honey...