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With its sleek curves, blazing red paint and open-backed platform, London's Routemaster bus has earned a place alongside Big Ben and Buckingham Palace as a British icon. Sadly, after nearly a half-century of loyal service since they first hit the roads in 1956, these old-fashioned double deckers are being phased out in favor of newer models that are more accessible to the elderly and disabled and don't require a bus conductor to check tickets. By 2006, there won't be a single Routemaster left on the capital's roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Red Bargain | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

With its sleek curves, blazing red paint and open-backed platform, London 's Routemaster bus has earned a place alongside Big Ben and Buckingham Palace as a British icon. Sadly, after nearly a half-century of loyal service since they first hit the roads in 1956, these old-fashioned double deckers are being phased out in favor of newer models that are more accessible to the elderly and disabled and don't require a bus conductor to check tickets. By 2006, there won't be a single Routemaster left on the capital's roads. But London 's loss could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Red Bargain | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...garden party hosted by the Queen was laid on at Buckingham Palace. During opening ceremonies at Westminster Hall, Her Majesty's Scots Guards bandsmen drew in their breath and tootled out Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barristers at the Old Bailey blinked uncertainly at that strange foreign phrase, "Have a nice day." And London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: On the Town in London | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...three-sport standout at Buckingham, Brown & Nichols—a high school one errant cut-off throw away from Harvard Stadium—and won league MVP as a junior, hitting .478 to beat out teammate Zak Farkes...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2005: The Book of Klimkiewicz | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

After all, you did know that Pierpont, Buckingham, and Saltonstall—all legendary founders of Yale—were actually Harvard graduates before they went to New Haven, right...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revisiting the Name of The Game | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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