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...losing students while other communities that have just as high housing costs as we have are gaining [students],” Nolan said, referring to the increase in school enrollment reported by Lexington and Wellesley. The two towns boast median house values of $417,400 and $548,100, respectively, in contrast to Cambridge’s median house value of $398,500, according to City-Data.com for the year...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Local Schools Lose Pupils | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

Valedictorians, All-American athletes, the occasional best-selling author...Harvard’s freshman class demographics are downright intimidating. Yet only one special frosh can boast having his own reality TV show, self-produced music videos, wedding filming service, and popstar-like fame on campus. Peter C. Shields Jr.’s ’09 latest music video, “Aphroditi,” which he produced, directed, and starred in, features the crooner in a number of suggestive scenes singing Greek and English lyrics that he penned himself. In the video, the often bare-chested...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pop Star in the Yard | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...seems as if director Sanaa Hamri has just slapped new characters and a new background into the generic formula for romantic comedy. Not to say that the formula doesn’t work. “Something New” is definitely enjoyable. While perhaps it does not boast the most creative of plots, it emanates a happy tingle that makes up for a good deal of its deficiencies in originality...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something New | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...boots. But in the tiny village of St. Christoph, 1,800 m up in Austria's famed Arlberg skiing region, the family-owned five-star Hospiz Hotel and nearby Hospiz Alm ski lodge offer a more refined way to kick back after a day on the slopes. Together they boast one of the world's prime collections of Bordeaux-much of it in large-format bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quantity and Quality | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...Donato said. “Our power play had the chance to make it a two-goal game so many times.” But Harvard’s penalty kill held the Bears to four scoreless shots on seven power plays, and the Crimson units, which boast an 85.9 percent success rate, rank ninth in the coutry. TOURNEY TIME The Crimson opens up the 54th Beanpot against Boston University at 8 tonight in TD Banknorth Garden. Harvard has won the four-team tournament for local bragging rights 10 times—that ranks them third, behind the Terriers...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pressure, Offensive Aggression Pay Dividends | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

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