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...music. Jack P. McCambridge ’06 manages Call the Cops. Because of his extensive work with student bands, the Undergraudate Council (UC) Campus Life Committee and the UC Concert Commission, McCambridge is well-schooled in the dynamics of live shows and knows the complex hierarchy of Boston-area venues. With each successful (read: crowd-drawing) performance, a band can proceed to a better locale and time slot. McCambridge believes in “ponying up ahead of time.” A band with a manager, he says, will seem more professional and serious to booking agents...
...last 14 years, four Boston-area college baseball teams have marked off a certain two days on the calendar in the middle of April. On these two days, small-time collegiate kids get a taste of big-league dreams. On these two days, the gates of Fenway Park are flung open to receive the varsity teams of Harvard, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts...
...Especially on Marathon Monday, if the Beanpot was right after, people would have to stay,” said Klimkiewicz, a Lexington native who also attended a local high school. “Who wouldn’t want to see the four Boston-area teams playing each other? And I’m sure they would have made a lot of money, keeping the concessions stands open...
...it’s the jock side—or, more accurately, the baseball side—that makes Zak Farkes so important to Harvard baseball. They don’t hand out Rookie of the Year awards to just any Boston-area kid who makes a splash in college, even if coming in that kid was a four-year starter who won a total of 108 games in his high school career...
...newer and larger survey, conducted late last year by the Boston-area marketing group Reach Advisors, provides more evidence of a shift in attitudes. Gen X (which it defined as those born from 1965 to 1979) moms and dads said they spent more time on child rearing and household tasks than did boomer parents (born from 1945 to 1964). Yet Gen Xers were much more likely than boomers to complain that they wanted more time. "At first we thought, Is this just a generation of whiners?" says Reach Advisors president James Chung. "But they really wish they had more time...