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Cambridge residents expressed frustration about the alleged intrusiveness of Harvard’s construction project across from Mather House and the University’s lack of response to neighborhood complaints at a meeting at the Cambridge Senior Center last night. Members of the Riverside Oversight Committee, a watchdog body created to advise the City on construction projects in the Riverside neighborhood, said that work on the graduate student housing complex on Cowperthwaite Street should not be taking place on Saturdays. “There are very few things that you have any choice on, but one of them...
...contract from the city of Redlands, which is Congressman Lewis' hometown. "The only cities in the country that don't need a lobbyist are the ones represented by a cardinal," Washington parlance for an a Appropriations subcommittee chairman, says Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog. Karl Haws, a former Redlands mayor and city councilman who made the formal motion in January 2000 to give Shockey's firm a contract for $30,000, according to council minutes, says it was "helpful to have a knowledgeable person to guide you.... We can't fairly expect Mr. Lewis, with...
...Olympic flags in downtown Torino just a few hours before the opening ceremonies, as Italian security officials voiced concern about more violent disruptions of the Games. Everywhere in the city and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible and, until the disco music drowned them out, watchdog helicopters whirred overhead. As for the internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god and so it had its sacrificial victim. At 26, U.S. skeleton driver Zach Lund uses the drug to reduce his hair loss, but it's banned...
...meaningful steps when it addresses the matter next month. Tehran now has a few weeks to disclose all aspects of its nuclear program, but it has already denied IAEA requests to review documents and interview sources, and said after Saturday's vote that it would further curtail the nuclear watchdog's inspection powers...
...allowed for “peaceful uses” of nuclear technology. To many analysts’ concern, this Cold War brainchild has no way to differentiate responsible states from tyrannical failed ones. This year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is the United Nations (UN)-watchdog association that struggles to keep the treaty on stage, regardless of the loopholes...