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Employees at local businesses yesterday were cautiously optimistic about the Web site’s potential to attract more customers...
...game).The speech, which lasted roughly an hour and a half, had a strange effect on me. It made me appreciate the sports environment at Harvard.Crimson sports don’t garner the same fanfare or attention as larger, non-Ivy League programs. We don’t attract the nation’s top prep school stars to play in Lavietes Pavilion and Harvard Stadium. A big reason for this is that the Ivy League has outlawed athletic scholarships, which leads to major prospects diverting their attention to other schools. But although this means that Harvard students can?...
...attract partygoers, the Grille closes unusually late for a Harvard Square eatery—at 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 a.m. or later on weekdays...
...unfashionable aspects of the genre that attract directors to it. "There's something wonderfully analog about the western," says Mangold. "What's happening onscreen is happening. It's not a guy hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...
...From the start, the White House has opposed the amendment. Levin and Reed have tinkered with their measure over the last year to attract more support. In July, they added a deadline for the Pentagon to conclude the transition from combat to support roles. One change since then is on the starting timetable: troop reductions are to begin within 90 days of enactment, rather than the previous 120 days of enactment. "We have to change our course," said Reed on Thursday. "That is at the heart of our amendment...