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Rudenstine said Faust will likely devote the next few months to contemplating two major appointments that are set to be vacant on July 1: the deanships of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard’s burgeoning Allston holdings expanded further last month with the purchase of a 5.2 acre property. The deal for the vacant Boston Tech Center, located behind the Brighton Mills Shopping Center, closed on December 13 for a $16 million price tag. The Marshall Field Family Trust, which owns the property under the Cabot, Cabot & Forbes name, first approached Harvard as a potential buyer in fall 2006, according to Field Family spokesman Larry Larsen. The trust purchased the property and began renovations in 2001, looking at the building as a possible life sciences center, Larsen said. A number...
...level agency is an elephantine bureaucracy with a leadership vacuum; a permanent replacement for Hayden as deputy has still not been named, though an Army lieutenant general has been acting deputy DNI since mid-2006. (The deputy secretary of State post for which Negroponte is now headed has been vacant nearly as long...
...Director Negroponte has not had a confirmed deputy since May 2006, when General Michael Hayden left to head the CIA," the new Senate intelligence committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, complained in a statement. "It is not acceptable for the top two jobs to be vacant at the same time. The leadership of the Intelligence Community is too important." Adding insult to injury, Negroponte had several times denied he might be moving to State, and the White House failed to notify Rockefeller in advance of the intelligence shuffle...
...Allston has always been a great and thriving place to live. Thriving that is, until Harvard, emboldened by the relatively little resistance the community was able to muster after their clandestine land grab, bought up and started closing down more and more businesses. And so now storefronts lie vacant and neighbors are being displaced. We recognize that some of our neighbors may have differing opinions and even living conditions. We respect those opinions and believe that ultimately we are all fighting for the same thing: better conditions and a better quality of life. It must be understood, however, that...