Word: beacons
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Curry is as visual on campus as he is visible. He is most often heralded as a beacon of dressy-chic style. He devotes 20 hours a week to working at the Banana Republic on Newbury Street, a job that has ensured him an extensive wardrobe of chic business casual. He has worked in retail for the past five years, including stints at the Gap in Harvard Square. Yet his Mather dorm room has taken on a very un-Banana tone since he desperately sought to fill his empty common room in his first year. At a fabric store...
...it’s not as if Beacon Hill fat-cats were the only ones playing games with language. Indeed, another measure which appeared on the ballot in certain local districts could also be seen as manipulative. This measure, which appeared as Question 4, 5 or 6 in various districts stressed the “strict fundraising and spending limits” involved in the Clean Elections law while avoiding any explicit mention of taxpayer dollars...
...also provided new information on the last months of Wilcox’s life. Roberts told The Court that Wilcox had “practically lived” with Dreyfus at his apartment on 44 Beacon St. The two lovers had met during the summer, Roberts said, and one fall night at a Beacon Hill club called the Lighted Lamp, Wilcox went home with Dreyfus. After that, Roberts said they were together “every night.” But when Wilcox decided to leave Dreyfus, the older man began “threatening to expose him to college...
Lewis pointed to what he called a “renaissance of young people” happening all over the world as a beacon of hope. Everywhere, he said, young adults are spending time to volunteer in AIDS-devastated countries and to donate whatever they can to the crisis...
...He’s just an inspiring individual, a beacon who can be trusted...particularly in this time when we look to public intellectuals to speak out on these issues,” said Mark Gwinn, a graduate student at Tufts University...