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Call them the L.A. Raiders of the Ivy League, the only team that travels to its home games. Because while Columbia renovated Baker field, the closest thing the Lions will have to actual home turf will be the hard green carpet of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Columbia students will have to leave the state to see their own Homecoming...
...role in the area. That role, as he has said, attaches importance to "cooperation rather than confrontation, and modesty rather than self-assertion." Nakasone has been meticulous in presenting himself as the exemplar of Japanese humility. That personal care extends to the way he responds to the red-carpet treatment on trips abroad. Nakasone claims that on such visits, he never walks down the center of the traditional welcoming mat for heads of government, because to do so would display arrogance. "Because I walk on one edge and my host walks on the other," he says, "the center stays very...
Sotheby's sees Taubman as a White Knight who will fend off an unfriendly takeover attempt by two other wealthy Americans, Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid. Cogan and Swid head General Felt Industries, a New Jersey maker of carpet backing, and Knoll International, a manufacturer of office furniture. The two, both art collectors, acquired 29.9% of Sotheby's stock and announced that they wanted to buy the rest. Sotheby's was apoplectic. Chief Executive Graham Llewellyn threatened to "blow my brains out" if the bid succeeded, and Sotheby's staff of experts in London warned they...
...while Harvard might roll out the red carpet to wine and dine the returning members of its Class of '58 and their families. Radcliffe's approach for hosting its returning alumnae in which more low-key. Radcliffe has arranged its events so that members of all the returning classes can meet together for discussions and luncheons, whereas each Harvard class arranges its own elaborate events...
Thus, as part of his daily routine, Alpert commonly receives calls to identify and eliminate insects ranging from some of the most common pests, like clothes moths or carpet beetles, to some of the most exotic. He has dealt with pests, such as Ornithonyssus bacoti, a tropical rat mite; Pollenia ruidis, a form of cluster fly; and a rare species of beetle larva that was found in a shipment of books...