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...Road and Western Ave. and an area near the Brighton Mills Shopping Center—Harvard was expected to make another offer in September. But no new offer has been made. Last week, a group of Charlesview residents filed a complaint with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charging that tenants were not being included in the Board’s negotiations with Harvard. Board Vice Chairman Manning said that this dispute was diverting time from negotiations with Harvard. “We will not continue to battle a small group of residents, and therefore it?...
...Urban Outfitters’ Bargain Basement may have the cheapest style in the Square, but sometimes it’s a bit hit-or-miss. FM has waded through the leftover XXLs and XXSs to bring you some staples of fall fashion. After you’ve put your T-shirts and polos into winter storage, yet before you’ve recovered those down jackets, you might consider sporting a track jacket. It won’t keep you from safe from wind, rain, or snow—but fashion before function, right? Despite its functional failure, it will...
...Harvard’s hands-off approach to local politics may lie more in its students’ priorities than in the nature of the town-gown divide. Even at Yale, a university bounded by urban disaster on all sides, students traditionally leave some imprint on city government...
...After the implosion of FEMA director Michael Brown, President George W. Bush placed Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen in charge of the federal response to Katrina. Before Hurricane Rita even hit land, the Administration placed a Coast Guard rear admiral in charge of that recovery. These are essentially urban-planning jobs--not something men and women who spend much of their professional lives on water are exactly trained...
...artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...