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PAINTING THE TOWN CRIMSON IT'S THE TOM AND LARRY SHOW, STARRNG THE SURPRISINGLY CHUMMY LEADERS OF BOSTON AND HARVARD. WHEN IT'S OVER, A PROJECT THAT MAY EXCEED THE BIG DIG IN COST COULD TURN ALLSTON - YES, ALLSTON - INTO A SLEEK SHOPPING AND RESIDENTIAL QUARTER, NOT UNLIKE A CERTAIN SQUARE IN CAMBRIDGE. IT COULD ALSO CHANGE THE VERY NOTION OF HOW AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
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It was June 11, 1970, and the pageantry of Harvard's commencement
was on display. A stage filled mostly with pink-skinned men
dominated Harvard Yard: the honorable and reverend board of
overseers; the high sheriff of Suffolk County; the governor of the
Commonwealth; the president of Harvard and his deans. Then a stocky,
and definitely unwelcome, fireplug of an African-American woman
invited herself to the party. Cambridge tenants activist Saundra
Graham grabbed the microphone and launched ...
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Cambridge weighs in Harvard crew can't catch up
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; GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- They'd already rowed "The Boat Race," their annual 4-miler with Oxford on the Thames. For the Cambridge crew, the idea of flying across the Atlantic to a remote lake in northeast Georgia to take on Harvard, Yale and the Oxonians in a 2,000-meter race was, well, extraordinary.
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