Word: area
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...attention last March with a plan to have B.U. take over the school system in Chelsea, the first time in the U.S. that a private educational institution has administered a public school system. Now in its first year of operation, the plan has been sharply criticized by teachers and area residents...
Keith called the rape "an unusual occurrence," but said that violent crime along the banks of the river is not entirely uncommon. "I don't think we've handled [a rape] in that immediate area for six months...
...victim said yesterday he had always assumed that the area where he was walking was fairly safe, especially at that hour...
...fact, Harvard says it makes a special effort to consider applications from Cambridge high school students, with 40 percent of last year's applicants from Rindge gaining admission. Harvard's overall acceptance rate was just 20 percent, says Dwight D. Miller, a senior admissions officer who oversees Cambridge-area applications...
...Obviously Harvard's relationship as an institution with the city of Cambridge and Boston is a sensitive one," Miller says. "We try to be sensitive to the kids applying from those [area] schools...