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Administrators say the plan, revealed last winter, would lessen the faculty office space crunch and provide a focus for undergraduate life, although some students remain skeptical...
NEWS BULLETIN: the bloodiest urban massacre in Communist China's history never took place. Thousands of troops never stormed the perimeters of Tiananmen Square. Hundreds, probably thousands, of students never died. Photographs depicting bloodied faces and battered bodies, news footage documenting the clatter of gunfire and the crunch of army tanks, foreign press reports detailing the pileup of dead and wounded bodies at hospitals -- none of it happened...
...community and the purpose of growth itself. Is Harvard primarily an academic institution or a real estate company? Many asked, "Why build a hotel?" Members of the faculty noted that the site could be better used as a library or a building to ease the faculty office crunch. Community activists screamed about insensitivity, charging that the University was destroying area neighborhoods...
...when the library system, facing a severe crunch as the burgeoning supply of books outstrips available storage facilities, needed a new director, who did the dean turn to? Verba, of course. He was named to the job in 1984 as soon as his term as associate dean ended...
...could use [the Gulf site] for the library," Feng says, adding that although she does not view "the space crunch [as] the most fundamental problem for scholarship,...it's the most pressing...