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Residents of Charlesview have raised concerns throughout the negotiation process, particularly because Harvard was speaking with Charlesview’s board of directors and not the residents themselves. A primary concern in the negotiations was that the new location would not offer residents the same access to public transportation that they currently use. That these concerns seem to have been overcome is a positive sign for Harvard’s future engagement with the Allston community...
...which recently marked its 40th anniversary, we have in the past months had special reason to refresh and re-examine our ties to Harvard and to take a hard look at the College today. Though there is much to praise and admire, there are also developments that prompt concern...
...fact. American women are not sold into pornography as slaves—though engaging in porn may come to be a decision a woman regrets, she is not without options. People enter the pornography industry because it is lucrative, not because they are forced into it. Dines’ concern is tantamount to worrying over the burger-flippers of the world, who are victims of the fast-food industry...
...Washington, however, hopes that Iran can be prevented from enriching uranium at all, out of concern that once the technology is mastered, Tehran could simply withdraw from the NPT - as North Korea did - and proceed to build a nuclear weapon within a matter of months. The NIE notes that the civilian nuclear infrastructure Iran is building would put bomb-making capability within easy reach, should Tehran take a political decision...
...catering to students and vying for votes, candidates rarely show discretion in recognizing the way the university does, and should, work. Indeed, the administration, especially the career-bureaucrats at University Hall specifically charged with overseeing student life, should show solicitous concern for the preferences and concerns of undergraduates. Yet the UC itself is in no position—financially, institutionally, or even in principle—to make as imperious of demands as it has over the past year. The UC’s job, dutifully executed, is principally to encourage, organize, and support student social life?...