Painting the Town Crimson

It's the Tom and Larry Show, starring 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.

By Michael Ryan

October 24, 2004

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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 ... (Full article: 4491 words)