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...neighborhood bakery. Ho says her swift adaptation to Chinese culture, along with the very American networking skills she used to cultivate mentors and allies back at headquarters, helped her survive when GE abruptly shut her unit last year. Instead of hauling her home, the company immediately placed her atop another division in China, selling security equipment like airport baggage-screening machines. "You can get orphaned out here," she says. Instead, she raised revenue fivefold at her new unit...
...Philadelphia's Vintage restaurant last week the special was two delicately pan-seared pieces of foie gras perched atop toasted brioche with a berry coulis, garnished with fresh raspberries and a side of rebellion...
...more prestigious race such as the Boston marathon - who formed the marathon's second wave. Numbering in the tens of thousands, they ran through their third and fourth hours (the race began at 8 a.m.) underneath a glaring sun - which, despite official numbers, caused one temperature gauge atop a bank near mile 23 to reach 96 degrees around 12:15 p.m. - when they first started to notice something was going terribly wrong...
...next phase is shaping up, among other things, as a Giuliani vs. Romney cage fight. Atop the national polls and ahead in fund-raising, Giuliani is proving steadier and more resilient than many GOP veterans expected. While Giuliani raised $10 million and has $16 million on hand, Romney's quiet self-subsidy of more than $8 million means that he too will have the money for the main event of the Republican race this fall and winter: the head to head bash-a-thon in which the two men accuse the other on the stump and in paid advertising...
...spokesman for Cambridge police, Frank Pasquarello. “When they went to the apartment they found the parking meters there,” Pasquarello said yesterday. “Most of the parking meters were found stashed in a closet, but there were many hidden under blankets atop of beds and in various corners of the house.” Pasquarello described Gannon as someone with an extensive criminal history. According to a Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation spokesman, the alleged heist cost the city at least $37,000 in replacement fees Assistant District Attorney Kate Cimini estimated that...