In an office in Boston, Arabs and Israelis work together to realize their dream of a transnational university. By John Yemma, Boston Globe Just south of North Station, within one of the most unnerving construction zones in North America, is a little neighborhood that was once prime real estate but is now a mess. The triangle below Causeway Street is a sea of broken pavement, construction vehicles, and crash barriers associated with the sprawling Big Dig project. Clanging and drilling are constant.
Dust is incessant.
Shops everywhere are shuttered. And right in the center of this upended world a fantastic dream has sprouted. So, please, be careful not to treat the sprout roughly, he and his colleagues urge. Give it the benefit of the doubt. There will always be time for hard-bitten reality to intrude on the dream they are nurturing in a makeshift office at the back of a building that once housed the Boston Antique Center.