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...walking wakeup call rounds the bend at Brattle and Mount Auburn Streets taking it directly by the Harvard Square Hotel and The Charles Hotel. A morning runner halts his jog to get a glimpse of the sea of crimson and brass which has executed a hostile takeover of the highly-trafficked street...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Loud and Proud, Band is Back for 85th Reunion | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...this show, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's sweet-hearted dope, heads West to jump-start his career and reconnect with his equally Noo Yawky sister Gina (The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo). We also meet his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo), a rocket scientist; his sharky agent, Bobbie (one-woman brass band Jennifer Coolidge); and his bland, pretty, married neighbor Alex (Andrea Anders). But none of these types are fresh or memorable. There's no Niles. Not even a Squiggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Friend In Denial | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...stores, with Old Navy pushing Argyle tube tops and ballet flats and H&M stocked with modest blouses that Paris Hilton wouldn't be caught dead in. Even perennially preppy retailers like J. Crew are taking the look a step further with navy schoolboy blazers that have polished brass buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preppy Goes Back to School | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...France, but now there is a community of concern, and lots of discussion about emigration." Alain Elbeze isn't a man to run scared. He says he went to prison at the age of 20 for mixing it up with neo-Nazis, and he keeps a poing americain (brass knuckles) handy when he's on the move. But he sees no point in keeping up the struggle. Though Elbeze, an ad salesman, attended public school, he pays j1,200 a month to send his children to private Jewish schools - not just for faith, but for safety. His kids will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Up In France ? | 8/29/2004 | See Source »

...tight Kremlin control, rather than launching a formally state-owned concern," which would scare off foreign investors. The new board chairman of Rosneft, who avoids publicity and contact with outsiders, is a key member of the Siloviki (hard men) - Putin's coterie of top security, law-enforcement and military brass, who many say are becoming Russia's new oligarchs. He won the new job after 14 years of loyal service to Putin. A 1984 graduate of Leningrad University in French and Portuguese, Sechin started his career as a translator in Africa. The Russian media alleged that he had kgb ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Yukos Endgame | 8/22/2004 | See Source »

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