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Sitting casually amid a clutter of television cameras, microphones and cables during a morning press conference in the Quincy House Senior Common Room, Leonard jokingly described his private meeting with President Bok: "I requested from him a scholarship...
...resembles early Mars more than contemporary Earth. And no place is more Martian in character than the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a wedge of rugged, rocky terrain stippled with ice-covered lakes and overhung by glaciers. No diminutive alpine plants cling to the slopes of these valleys. No rodents scurry amid the boulders and scree. No flies or mosquitoes whir through the air; no fish, mollusks or crustaceans dwell in the lakes and streams...
...Amid all of the ambitious and costly options dreamed up by faculty and architects, Spiegelman says that for now the cheapest and potentially fastest way to travel between campuses may be good old fashioned walking...
...prepare for both, Blahnik spent much of the holiday season traveling even more. "I don't like this kind of attention," he says. "I still think 'Why did I let myself into this madness?'" The exhibition, which runs until May 11, is a scrapbook of his career. Tucked amid white walls built of shoe boxes - the show was designed by his niece - are original sketches and magazine pages featuring his shoes, clothes by some of the designers with whom he has worked, a video clip of the mugging scene in Sex and the City and shoes - lots and lots...
...housing market, it's the same old lonely story that it's been for two years:? propping up consumers' spirits - and spending - while the rest of the economy lies exhausted on the floor, still trying to struggle to its feet. Standing proud amid the glum procession of economic indicators and Wall Street selloffs in the past week have been stellar year-end numbers from the Commerce Department in housing starts (up 5 percent to a 1.835 million-unit annual rate in December, the highest since 1978), new home sales (up 3.5 percent to an annualized 1.08 million, a new record...