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BOSTON--It was Wednesday afternoon at Roxbury's Mission Hill housing projects and as children ran everywhere on the asphalt playground between the dingy brick buildings, Amy C. Sykes '01 and Kimberly Beeman '00 tried to round up Green Group. The crowd proved too much, and in the end the two struggled to break up a fight between one student, Natasha, and a peer...
...walk from the Kenmore T station to Fenway on game day offers an experience unfamiliar to many sports fans today. Too many modern ballparks sit dismembered from the communities which support them, connected to their cities by thin ribbons of asphalt. Missing from these suburban landscapes is the mix of eclectic shops, restaurants, scalpers and bums that makes the walk to Fenway worth taking...
...civic instrument was all-too-Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes on bronze bells are treasured hall-marks of many European cities and universities, and those peals operate as any decent public time-piece should--24 hours a day. Sadly, in a culture such as ours (which values asphalt and chain-link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul's are a rare treasure indeed. At a university which prides itself on the diversity of its community and whose students rail against the homogenization of Harvard Square, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that this...
Others such as Daniel A. Simon '99, who was taping bright green posters advertising this past weekend's Jambrosia concert to the asphalt just past the gates, said the clutter of posters on gates is "a necessary evil [for students] to promote their activities in a college environment...
...creative director of the nail-polish company Urban Decay, advertised free manicures at last year's International Fashion Boutique Show in New York City, the lines stretched out the door. Part of the clamor was simply good buzz, with fashion reporters raving over Urban Decay's wild shades, like Asphalt (matte black), Mildew (organic green) and Plague (deep purple). But there was another reason for the long wait. "There were as many men as women" in line, says Zomnir...