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Performances by Nnenna Freelon, Underground Railway Theater, and Snappy Dance Theater will highlight the upcoming charitable concert “Unite for Arts.” Sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council Grant Program, all proceeds of the concert will benefit the council and its numerous artistic programs. Tickets $50 and $25, available at the Harvard Box Office or online. Tickets reduced to $10 for students after November 24 if available. 7 p.m. Sanders Theater...
After the meeting, Kerry Corner resident Carol Bankerd said she was concerned about the location of the University’s proposed underground parking lot for the planned development near Mather House. The parking lot threatens the existence of 13 100-year-old trees, she said. The University could save the trees by building the parking lot deeper or keeping it underneath the proposed buildings...
...friend Mollie’s house. We’d discovered the Sixties at the same time. She had started listening to the Beatles at my urging, and then had turned to music that was more “hard core” to us: Janis Joplin, The Velvet Underground and Dylan. Although she too had found Dylan through a female crooner (hers was Joan Baez), she wouldn’t accept my rejection of Bob’s voice. “After a while,” she said, “it feels like an old friend...
...from farmers," says Beijing University's Shen. Gray-market lending is even providing inspiration for a new generation of would-be private bankers. A group of scholars at Zhejiang's Communist Party School, a training ground for cadres, are proposing to "establish legal private banks" along the lines of underground institutions, according to one of the professors who helped draft the proposal...
...China's first fully private bank, the Taizhou City Commercial Bank. Regulators have refused to approve it but, significantly, haven't shut it down either. "These small banks don't issue loans based on government directives, so their investment is much healthier," explains Shi Jinchuan, an expert on underground finance at Zhejiang University...