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City leaders reacted angrily yesterday to Harvard's announcement that it will ask a county court to determine if Cambridge paid enough money for a one-acre vacant lot off Sacramento St. which it took by eminent domain last month.
The Cambridge City Council voted to take the land by eminent domain three weeks ago. City leaders, including Sullivan, said they hoped to persuade Harvard to take the $480,000 price because of the city's budgetary crisis.
Several eminent professors retired in the last few years--Milton Friedman is one--and some economics faculty blame Harberger for not working actively to replace them. Though most economics professors at the University of Chicago respect his economic knowledge, they criticize his administrative negligence.
LATER THIS MONTH, the city of Cambridge is expected to take by eminent domain a one-acre parcel of University-owned land north of Lesley College.
Isamu Noguchi is the pre-eminent American sculptor. This fine-boned and unaged man, with a grip as tough as an old Maine lobster's, has expanded his work over an extraordinary range of images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is...