Word: vacant
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...After he purchased the Arrow Street storefront almost two decades ago, Purdy diversified his business interests. The store has hosted a prostitution ring, a hair salon, a massage parlor, and an art gallery—featuring Purdy’s original paintings and nude art photos. It now remains vacant. Another Harvard undergraduate, Kathleen E. Hale ’09, testified Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court that Purdy raped her on her first day at Harvard in September 2005. Like the victim who filed charges against Purdy, Hale said she was raped during a massage appointment. After Hale injured...
Smith said that without the completion of appointments to the vacant deanships of both the College and GSAS, it has been difficult to conduct these reviews...
...after the Annapolis conference when the March 14 bloc, which forms a slim majority in the Lebanese parliament, revealed that it would back the presidential nomination of General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Lebanese army - a candidacy that it had previously opposed. The Lebanese presidency has been vacant since November 23 when parliament failed to elect a successor to Emile Lahoud, the pro-Syrian head of state whose term ended the same day. The recent decision by March 14 to opt for Suleiman - who is seen as having close ties to the militant Shi'ite Hizballah, which spearheads...
...opening is the result of a directive to HRES from former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was apparently concerned that such a business would not break into an environment in which, seemingly, attracts only banks and national chains. For the last year and half, HRES has leased the vacant space at the corner of Brattle and Church streets at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars until they could find a grocer to occupy it. This sort of “surgical intervention” as James W. Gray, associate vice president of HRES, termed it could not simply...
...nothing so unique about our Square, where I regularly cut through the seating of Cambridge’s ABP so that I can avoid Spare Change Guy and the colonial-style bricks that destroy my heels. With the storefronts of my two former favorite coffee shops still vacant because of Harvard Real Estate’s prohibitively high rent, I am hard-pressed to remember what I liked about the area...