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...violation, though not large, is more than a technicality. By holding the unit, Harvard prevented any possibility that the home would go on the open market, where the hundreds of Cantabrigians in need of housing would have had a chance at the property. It also allowed the professor to buy the condo at a far lower interest rate than that available to area residents...
...single condo being occupied. When the law is broken, I assume the person will be prosecuted and end up with a $500 fine and a criminal record for the rest of his or her life," Sullivan said, adding, "The bill has dried up the market. Anyone buying up a unit with the hope of ever occupying it is in real trouble...
Zeckhauser said the purchase did not violate the spirit of the agreement, but some Cambridge residents disagreed, since buying the property and holding it for Brody's low interest purchase may have prevented the unit from reaching the open market. "It is yet another example of Harvard's ongoing maneuvering to make it difficult for Cambridge residents to buy property in their city," David Sullivan, a city council candidate, said. "It is only one unit, but it is part of a consistent scheme," Sullivan said, adding "even small violations call into question Harvard credibility...
...unit in question was originally owned by Arthur Drinkwater '00, for many years the oldest living Harvard alumnus. Drinkwater died recently, leaving the unit to Harvard, which sold it to Stephen Harrison, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The University bought the condo from Harrison last month...
...really matters, of course, because the election, in keeping with tradition, is basically a referendum on White and his three-term record. Corruption, the shining issue in the Watergate-on-the-Charles atmosphere of 1975, has faded away; only one candidate still supports the ides of a new watchdog unit to oversee activities in City Hall. "If integrity was the issue in 1975," says one city insider, "leadership is the issue this year." The natural issue for this election was "time for a change." But for the majority of Bostonians, King is too much of a change and Finnegan stupidly...