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...Kind of Blue? Last week, as it shed its personal computer past by finalizing the $1.25 billion sale of its PC division to China's Lenovo, IBM reaffirmed its transformation into an IT services provider - which also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs...
Under the new system, the Houses would be divided into four color-coded “neighborhoods.” Quad houses would comprise the orange neighborhood Lowell, Quincy, and Adams, the blue; Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop, the red; and Leverett, Dunster, and Mather, the green. The two blocking groups that wish to live near each other would still consist of up to eight members each, and would be placed in different houses in the same neighborhood...
...fact, Ellsworth Kelly, a postwar American Abstract Expressionist, created the piece, which is entitled “Red, Blue.” Kelly’s work includes both painting and sculpture, and focuses almost entirely on the hard lines of the geometric, but it is without the type of rigidity that characterizes the square terraces and windows of Peabody Terrace...
...such happening was “the Cube.” The group built a 12-foot cubical frame, covered it with red-and-blue fabric, and marched it down Mass. Ave. blaring music from boom boxes. The many-legged cube then wandered the Yard before stopping in front of the Science Center, where members ordered a dozen pizzas and invited passers-by to come hang out inside the mobile party room...
...customer base for this incarnation of sex show, according to Shamrock co-owner John, is blue-collar America, “anything from someone who works for Best Buy to someone who owns a construction company.” College students, with less cash to handle the minimum fee of over $100, don’t make up that much business except during fraternity rush season. And even then, college students tip less, according to the women. That segment of business comes from campuses like MIT, Tufts, Bentley, Boston University, and even Wellesley. Providing just eight or ten jobs...