Word: tennesses
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...control… not so much. But we respected him because he stood by his beliefs. He kept it real, and his straight talk inspired people who were turned off by politics-as-usual. He wasn’t Bill (or Tupac), but Dean drew rallies of ten to fifteen thousand people in the summer of 2003, six months before a primary election...
...Crimson did just that, amazingly hitting on each of its first ten attempts from the floor...
...frank. Cambridge and Harvard negotiate a PILOT every ten years. Cambridge would have been perfectly within its rights to hold out for more money in the 2000-2010 cycle, just as Harvard could have held out for less. In another five years, Cambridge will get another chance to renegotiate its deal with Harvard. But the city knew exactly what it was getting when the current agreement was made, and has no just cause to complain. One of the primary reasons for the current push—a rising city budget—is ridiculous for exactly this reason. Cambridge...
...Cambridge will surely bring similarly flimsy arguments to the next PILOT agreement. But a ten-year agreement is meaningless if it is not actually adhered to for ten years, barring truly incredible circumstances. The city’s only true motive seems to be that it can, just maybe, get more money from Harvard. If this is the case, the agreement is ridiculous. Should Harvard be able to arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried...
...taxpayers, is absurd. Cambridge will always put voting residents ahead of the students who call the city home, so trying to get more money out of the University is an understandable move; but to pursue this policy relentlessly and arrogantly, to pursue it in the face of a preexisting ten-year agreement, pushes beyond any bound of decency or fairness...