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...thought of portabella mushrooms and goat cheese. Any self-respecting Southern restaurant would put mesclun greens on its menu only under the very threat of death. However, this is Cambridge, where Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed John Brown a saint for his raid on Harper's Ferry and where the Mason-Dixon feels about as far south as the equator. Around here, good Southern cooking is as hard to find as the old Stars and Bars. But who really cares, when the result of a fusion of Southern and yuppie cuisine can be as good as it is at Magnolias...
According to Carol Grodzins, director of the Edward S. Mason Fellowship Program of the Harvard Institute for International Development, one of Bhumi's advisers, Bhumi would not send interns to a region where there was a real threat of violence due to military conflict...
...project. What the university got instead, in a deal cut by then HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, was full authority over the housing of 55,000 people--10% of the city's population--in 10 projects. The agreement allowed Tulane senior vice president Ron Mason, the new de facto head of HANO, to undertake a complete reorganization of the agency...
...Wisely, Mason and Tulane first tackled nuts and bolts. They evicted criminals and drug users, reduced the backlog of work orders by 9,000 and improved response times for such things as plumbing repairs from months to days or hours. Just as important, they enlisted the support of citywide tenant groups who had once fought HANO bitterly...
...uncommon in big institutions near theend of a successful campaign for otherinstitutions to try and get important people fromthat campaign, Mason said...