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Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker took University representatives to task for playing needless power politics at a town-gown showdown yesterday morning at City Hall. The hearing, focusing on Harvard’s construction work on the new graduate student housing site across from Mather House, follows months of mitigation meetings where city residents have repeatedly demanded access to reports about the project’s effects on air and soil quality. “The fact that you won’t give them to the community makes me want them even more,” Decker said...
...tend to stick around through even the thickest mud. And most voters have long ago made up their minds that Berlusconi is either a crook or the victim of blood-thirsty prosecutors who want to usurp power from a democratically elected leader. The timing, so close to Berlusconi?s showdown with former European Commission President Romano Prodi, may actually help Berlusconi by convincing some of the relatively few undecided voters that there is indeed a political motive for the investigations...
...Major, Plan B for the Type A’s, and Maya) and four bands from nearby Boston colleges. Four of the nine acts performed last night, while the rest will take the stage on Tuesday. Two bands from each night will advance to face off in a final showdown on March 21.Hufstedler says that while the event is shaped as a competition, its true purpose is to give visibility to alternative music groups and to encourage networking among student musicians. Accordingly, HCARAR hosted a “musicians’ pre-party” for the battle?...
...quarterfinals. Quibell’s only losses this season had come to Lorentzen—once in the Crimson’s 5-4 win in New Haven, and once when Quibell defaulted in the Howe Cup tournament. Heading into the individual tournament, almost everyone anticipated a heated showdown between the graduating veteran Quibell and the up-and-coming rookie Lorentzen. Everyone, that is, except Grigg—and Lorentzen herself. “I totally thought Kyla had a shot to beat her,” Lorentzen said. “Michelle didn’t have a very...
...Roberts singled out the Harvard professors’ brief and later wrote that the Harvard faculty members’ interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown by adopting an alternative interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. In doing so, the professors pursued a novel legal tactic in a court battle that raged for more than two years. But the Harvard professors’ tactic did not sway their former student Roberts—nor did it convince...