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...Average income of readers of Vogue, the fashion standard-bearer...
...Mass.) met with two groups of Harvard students on Monday afternoon after a personal invitation was extended to him by Maxine Isaacs, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Kerry, the Commonwealth’s junior senator, served as the Democratic standard-bearer in 2004 and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1985. He is widely believed to be harboring presidential aspirations for 2008. Kerry first met with students yesterday at the Institute of Politics, where he had a short lunch with a group of twelve first-years from Isaacs?...
...back President Bush on most issues, but they are no more impressed with the nomination of Bernanke than they are with that of Harriet Miers. Bernanke, they warn, doesn't share some of their basic positions on issues such as taxation. By contrast, curiously enough, Paul Krugman - standard bearer of the Left in national economic debates and often a fierce critic of Greenspan - appears to welcome the nomination of his former Princeton colleague, although he fears that Bernanke's tenure at the White House may have compromised his independence...
...best chance against Daigneau came just moments into the first period, via 2-on-1, but he and the Crimson defense successfully warded off the effort and neutralized the Redmen offense throughout the next period and a half. Tobe, however, was less fortunate, though he was not the exclusive bearer of blame for the McGill comeback. Sloppiness on his part did account for the Redmen’s second tally—Tobe gloved Lucas Madill’s blueline shot but failed to control it, allowing Maddill to bang home the rebound—but Harvard?...
...magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching on TV back in the U.S., Violinist Isaac Stern reached Horowitz by phone to say he had had tears in his eyes throughout...