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...than 100,000 people. In 1901, the first of many mass sit-down Christmas dinners at Madison Square Garden was funded by kettle donations. Despite occasional bans over the years on kettle set-ups outside stores and malls, which sometimes prohibit the bell ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife of the founder of McDonald's, to open community centers...
...When President-Elect Obama spoke at Chicago’s Grant Park, he asked all Americans to “join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years—block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.” If you walk down Western Ave in Allston, past some of Harvard’s vacant or under-utilized buildings, it is clear that Harvard owns a lot of property that needs some “block by block” rebuilding...
Freshman forward Keith Wright led the team with a career-high four blocks, while senior forward Evan Harris had three of his own. Both junior guard Jeremy Lin and junior forward Doug Miller contributed two rejections to the total. Freshman center Peter Swiatek had a key block of his own after coming off the bench in the last seconds of the game, leaping through the air to stuff Jeremy Hence’s layup to seal the game for Harvard...
...block away at Steve Madden, manager Francesca Ruggiero lamented that the store hadn't even sold $4000 worth of footwear by 9 a.m., even though it had opened at 6 a.m., an hour earlier than last year. Next door, Victoria's Secret manager Linda Petar told TIME, "We're on target," although by 8:45 a.m. the shop had sold less than $80,000 worth of merchandise toward its goal of $650,000 for the day. Other stores, including Perfumania, Fossil and Aerosoles all looked fairly desolate by 8 a.m., despite the perky signs beckoning, "Come In. We're Open...
...Eastern time in the U.S.), it was still going on. Earlier in the evening, the police, who had been pushing the crowd away, started beating them back with bamboo sticks. Crowd control is rudimentary at best. The police and army have stationed vehicles to block foot traffic from the roads; cars are blocked much further down the main road. There are rough ropes strung up by the lackeys of the local political bosses to keep the masses away from the buildings, but if you know the right person, you can still get past them...