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...singer, film-score composer and rock promoter Begin at Little India. From Farrer Park MRT station, walk against the flow of traffic and you'll notice plenty of smells, colors, spices and music before you end at Tekka Mall. By then, you should have worked up an appetite. Head to the New 7th Storey Hotel in Bugis, tel: (65) 6333 4900, for an alfresco "steamboat" or hot-pot dinner. The hotel is one the few remaining old landmarks in the area. After dinner, pop over to the Arts House, tel: (65) 6332 6900, on Old Parliament Lane. A theater screens...
Much the same way that owners grow to look like their dogs, sometimes spokesmen begin to resemble their candidates. That's certainly true of Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney's national press secretary, though his neat, Romneyesque looks are quickly belied by a thick New York accent. Shifting seamlessly between sound bites and genial (if sometimes vulgar) humor, Madden, 35, has kept the campaign from getting too rattled by Romney's occasional malapropisms and gaffes. The effortlessness with which he laughs off Romney's missteps (when Romney told Fox News that his favorite novel was a sci-fi tome by Scientology...
...Patrick also introduced in May, she said a long-term plan is necessary to fight crime. “He can provide a strategy that will last beyond the next two to three years,” she said, but declined to enter into policy detail, saying Patrick should begin by devoting more attention to the problem. “There are things in existence that have inadequate funding,” she said. “He’s a smart man.” Lockridge-Steckel said she was optimistic about the impact of the vigil...
...Cabot Dining Hall LED screen, and business card-sized shuttle schedules, the last of which I first printed with my house administrator three years ago. Last spring, administrators from Shuttle Services and University Hall, including Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, assured me that they would begin to print the schedules themselves, which cost the Quad houses a mere $100 each year to print. Five weeks into the school year, they have failed to print a version for this year, leaving Quad house administrators to once again coordinate their production...
...controversy over the College ordering the UC to get rid of party grants was on every student’s mind as Petersen, having changed his characteristically tight jeans to slacks, walked up to the podium. The problem with this elephant (besides how it got in this room to begin with) is not whether we are allowed party grants or not. Instead, the problem is the way the College approached us before publicly announced its decision: it didn?...