Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WATCH OUT, Harvard. The City Councilor who once threatened to turn The Yard into a bus station, the very same man who had The Square renamed for Christopher Columbus, is back in charge...
...most famous threat took place when Vellucci, peeved at Harvard's reluctance to help solve the city's parking problem, announced a plan to purchase Harvard Yard by eminent domain and pave it over...
Another recent Vellucci project was the creation of a community vegetable garden on the overpass between the Yard and the Science Center. Since it passes over Cambridge Street, he argued, the city owned the overpass by virtue of "air rights." Although Harvard has officially agreed with this position, the lawn and shrubbery have yet to be torn up for rutabagas...
...where two sons have sprung to Harvard and Brown), Madden feels especially at home on the road. "America is my home," he likes to say. "I look out my window, and I see Wyoming and Nebraska, and the sycamores of Indiana, and the Hudson River. That's my front yard." Like a John Steinbeck traveling without his dog Charley, Madden is turning his journey into the third (and probably last) book. "I enjoy writing them a lot more than reading them," he says. "It's like I never watch tapes of the broadcasts. I was that...
Last year, two groups of roommates in the south Yard arranged conferences with Worth about rooming problems, but none of them changed rooms, she says...