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While You Were Gone...

Rudenstine Leaves Office, Summers Steps In

Friends said that Surti was quite interested in teaching as a career path. She had been planning to spend part of this fall in India working with children and was considering participating in the Teach for America program upon returning to the United States.

Namibia researcher airlifted to the capital city

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Southern African Let’s Go Writer David J. Bright ’02 cut short his research in late June after a car wreck in Namibia hospitalized him. Bright’s car hit sand and flipped while he was driving June 26 in the northwestern Namibian state of Khorixas. He suffered lacerations to the head, right arm and left hand in the accident. After the accident, Bright continued to work for Let’s Go at its Cambridge headquarters.

Riverside Moratorium

In a July 30 meeting, the Cambridge City Council moved toward an eight-month extension of a moratorium on development in Cambridge’s Riverside neighborhood that was designed to prevent Harvard from going forward on its plans to build a new art museum.

The petition, sponsored by 16 residents of Riverside, was sent by the council to its development and ordinance committees for preliminary review.

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