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...marks the University’s second successful letting of a vacant property in the neighborhood since the December announcement that Harvard would be aggressively pursuing tenants for its unoccupied holdings in Allston. The announcement came in the wake of the indefinite halt of construction on the Allston Science Complex, a major component of Harvard’s plans to build a new campus across the Charles River...
...unfair to judge the difference between short and long fiction by examining an author such as Flannery O’Connor who is acclaimed for her stories and not her novels. However, this somewhat lopsided example conveys the specific strengths of the short story. While not offering the complex world of a novel, a short story collection can offer genuine snapshots of real human activity. Perhaps American life is better represented through these short visions than through the grand and singular narrative of a novel...
...features fluttering flutes and pounding snare drums which would feel perfectly at home in a symphony, and yet it feels far more down-to-earth than such instrumentals would suggest. The vocals and percussion, which are mixed unusually high throughout the record, dominate Muhly’s complex arrangement and contribute significantly to that unpretentious quality. “Go” is an album which is easy to appreciate on first listen, but its immediacy never detracts from the emotional rollercoaster Jónsi is so adept at creating...
Lowenstein is terrific at walking the reader through complex economic events, and he artfully traces the development of the subprime-mortgage disaster. It sounds like a lofty ideal when Angelo Mozilo, a co-founder of Countrywide, says in a speech in 2003, "Expanding the American dream of homeownership must continue to be our mission, not solely for the purpose of benefiting corporate America, but more importantly, to make our country a better place." Countrywide and others made mortgages available to anyone with a pulse, aided and abetted by Wall Street, which created the market for exotic mortgage derivatives...
...while disputes between the University and the community are largely absent from the project, Lue says December’s halt in construction on the Science Complex has had some negative effects on the Education Portal...