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...Boston’s golden ticket. Getting a hold of a pair is not easy. In the offseason, the team holds a lottery for the right to buy tickets at face value. Even though people all over New England sit in front of their computers hitting the refresh button, it is worth a shot to try your own luck. If that fails, you can always pony up some cash and be guaranteed tickets through an online agency. Your best option, though, might be joining several e-mail lists on campus (house lists, club lists, etc.) and waiting for other students...
...about by the Senate Finance Committee, might fit the bill by providing an alternative to purely private insurance. When I asked whether this sort of arrangement, modeled on private business organizations like rural cooperatives, might be an acceptable alternative to the public option that has become an ideological hot button, he said, "I think in theory you can imagine a cooperative meeting that definition. Obviously, sort of the legal structure of it is less important than practically how can it operate." (Read Tumulty's interview with Obama on health care...
...will use the phrase as a brand name for an international line of preppy clothing, beginning with men's wear selling for prices ranging from $160 for shirts to $495 for sport coats. The clothes will not bear a Harvard logo or shield, but will include crimson trim around button holes and zippers as well as the "Harvard Yard" brand on the neck label and the hangtag, according to Wearwolf Executive Vice President Jeffrey D. Wolf. Many of the line's clothes are named after buildings around the Harvard campus, he said. For example, shirts will be called Yenching...
...Immigration is a hot-button issue for British voters, with the recession fueling fears that Brits are losing already scarce jobs to foreigners. In a Home Office poll released in February, 64% of respondents said they were dissatisfied with the government's immigration policies. That same month, the government responded to the economic downturn by toughening the points system for getting a visa into the country. Now it argues that a second, more difficult test to decide who can stay would give it an additional mechanism to respond to the needs of the U.K.'s workforce. (Read "Immigration...
...town; both the building and the selling have ground to a halt. "We were supposed to have another neighbor, but his financing didn't come through," says Vinny. It's not the neighborhood full of life he had imagined his children growing up in. "Everybody just pushed the pause button," says Russell Dane, president of the Ada County Association of Realtors...