Headline of the Day/Week/Year?
Posted on February 24th, 2009 in Uncategorized |
“Dread is Rising in Harvard’s Hole”
—Boston Globe, 2.23.09
The existential weirdness of that headline aside, it’s actually a pretty interesting story. Bottom line: Allston just got screwed. The neighborhood is looking at years of blight, empty storefronts, barren streets, and plagues of rats.
It’s not really Harvard’s fault—blame the economy—but is it Harvard’s responsibility?
Harvard even kicked out the VW dealer where I bought my Passat, on a blustery winter day six years ago, so that I could commute back and forth from NYC to Cambridge and write Harvard Rules….
4 Responses
2/24/2009 10:00 am
RB- don’t forget it is an election year in Boston so take it for what it is worth…pls don’t read too much into this…it is different from what you may believe.
2/24/2009 1:40 pm
Drudge is currently featuring a picture of Larry Summers with the headline: “PAPER: Obama’s Head Of Econ Council Falls Asleep At Summit… ” linking to this Financial Times story which does offer the promised detail in the 2nd-to-last graf.
That’s MY headline of the day, anyway.
2/24/2009 4:35 pm
Missed that Drudge headline! but to see it in context, currently also on his site: “Man Living in Cave Hit by Recession…”
2/24/2009 6:22 pm
Meanwhile, in my headline of the day, “Harvard Neurosurgeon at Brigham hospital wins $1.6 million discrimination suit”