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There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...
Members, who stand out with their black, hoodedGang Peace sweatshirts, may be most visible in thesummer when they organize "concerts on thecorner." Members of the group built and decorateda stage on a vacant lot across the street from theGang Peace headquarters, and the group heldseveral concerts featuring local performers...
...selecting a provost and filling the vacant graduate school deanships--at the Education School and the Graduate School of Design--are on the top of Rudenstine's agenda. Not much lower on the agenda is a University-wide long-term academic planning initiative in preparation for the ever-looming fund drive, which could have a target of as high as $2.5 billion...
...jarring dilemma: Which takes precedence -- democratic principles or geopolitical self-interest? The U.S. initially appeared to support the annulment of the election by contending that the generals, whose intervention had the support of a handful of civilian leaders, acted constitutionally when they appointed a council to fill the vacant presidency. In fact, the 1989 Algerian constitution makes no such provision. A day later, officials declared that Washington would not stake out a position in the constitutional debate. France, which ruled Algeria until 1962 and still maintains close cultural ties, also zigged and zagged until President Francois Mitterrand concluded that Algeria...
...suit charges that there is no longer any public need for rent regulation and that the system--considered one of the most restrictive in the country--unfairly takes control of landlords' property by not allowing them to leave their buildings vacant or destroy or convert them into condominiums. The suit charges that the city does not compensate landlords for their loss of rights, in effect forcing them to pay for much of the city's affordable housing program...