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Friday, 4:00 p.m. The producers reconvene for a meeting in El-Hage’s room, a homely Claverly abode with Japanese prints and an impressionist landscape on the walls. On the floral rug there are boxes full of fashion donations for the post-show auction; beside them, from piles of posters, the sexy and austere Eleganza models stare angstfully across the room at a vintage map of Harvard...
Event co-chair Brett M. Giblin ’11 said that he felt the event—which also featured a silent auction and autograph signing session—went smoothly...
...effectively farm a fish that weighs more than an NFL lineman, is entirely carnivorous and takes 30 years to reach its maximum size. Of course, fishermen can switch over to albacore or yellowtail or other, smaller tunas, but nothing makes money like bluefin, which at auction can bring more than $100,000 per fish; in any case, no species is immune to overfishing. The Japanese may have chosen not to see what they're doing to the fish they love best, but I've read about what's happening, and now you have too. And we have to exert ourselves...
...latest initiatives are aimed at slowing the steady stream of homes that are headed toward foreclosure. The number of households receiving foreclosure filings, which includes default notices, auction-sale letters and bank repossessions, was 2.8 million in 2009, up from 2.3 million in 2008, according to Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing for RealtyTrac. He expects filings to increase to 3 million this year...
...toast, Eliot boasts a tight-knit community that is active and vibrant. The mighty mastodon is the House mascot, and it appears in six hidden locations around the House. The Eliot House Committee constantly plans House-wide events from Charles Eliot Day to the Date Auction. Moreover, stein clubs have become themed with a release of a publicity video preceding the weekly event. To keep away unwanted dinner guests, impromptu pantless dinners take place, building House solidarity and leading to hilarious awkward moments. New traditions keep sprouting...