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After listening to smooth jazz tunes, venturing into Centro was a brief culture shock. With Pavarotti softly crooning in the background, Centro is reminiscent of an Italian villa. Gothic-esque lanterns and relief carvings grace the restaurant, while dim lighting renders the room cozy and romantic. On a Wednesday evening, the clientele was composed largely of professionals in their late twenties or early thirties, most of whom appeared to be having a relaxing evening out with friends. The tables were well-spaced to the point where awkward first-daters would have plenty of privacy to share a life story...
While Britain’s BBC and France’s Le Monde were running stories on the massacre, the U.S. media dusted reports about Jenin under the carpet. Some U.S. publications responded to news of a massacre by momentarily cooling their anti-Palestinian rhetoric. For a brief time, the New York Times’ good cop/bad cop duo of Thomas Friedman and William Safire relented in their onslaught against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Safire took a break from the Middle East and wrote on cosmetic surgery, while Friedman urged his readers to watch the Golf Channel instead...
...Aside from the questionable use of the word "artificial" when it comes to companies selling their own products, Levin has a point - corporate names like BP-Amoco, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil demonstrate well enough the industry's recent wave of consolidation. But as Levin targets the brief but headline-making pump-price spikes of spring 2000 and summer 2001 and calls for antitrust action against the industry, he forgets how the got on this merger kick in the first place: the rock-bottom oil prices of 1999. Disappearing profits induced Exxon and Mobil to join forces in search of a vertically...
Summers’s contribution to Springfest will be marked by a pause in the festivities when the president will “give brief remarks,” according to Lee, who will introduce...
Between the doubles and singles matches, a brief ceremony was held honoring the five graduating seniors...