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...years, shopping on Chicago's State Street meant one thing: Marshall Field's, the hallmark department store that has stood at that address since the White Sox were the White Stockings. Come September, the store's new parent, Federated Department Stores, will rechristen it Macy's, and loyal Marshall Field's customers are both angry and genuinely sad. "For some chain to come into Chicago and think we're New York is totally misguided," says June Cuci, 48, who has been shopping at Field's since her childhood. Even film critic Roger Ebert lamented the loss. "I thought...
Growing up poor on the South Side of Chicago, Patrick attended high school at the Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., on a scholarship, and he became the first in his family to attend college. After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Patrick went on to hold high-level corporate posts at Coca-Cola and Texaco after his Clinton administration stint...
...Jordans also offered themselves as the perfect base material for mock tribal masks because their blacks, whites and reds, borrowed from the uniform of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, are also the colors that recur in carvings of coastal native peoples, especially the Haida. In the flash of an eye, tribal palette becomes team colors and vice versa. Native tribes and sports tribes flicker back and forth in the same slightly comic, slightly menacing face...
Even at M.I.T., the U.S.'s premier engineering school, the traditional career path has lost its appeal for some students. Says junior Nicholas Pearce, a chemical-engineering major from Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don't want to say dead end but sort of 'O.K., here's your role, here's your lab, here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool product, you're locked into it." Like Gao, Pearce is leaning toward consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid...
...Among those who have weighed in on the domestic eavesdropping controversy are Harvard’s Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann and Appellate Court Judge Richard A. Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago. The debate between the two well-known scholars, which took place on the pages of a left-of-center magazine, The New Republic, incorporated questions of both legality and proper policy, with Posner concerned more with the program’s merits and Heymann with its conformity to the FISA statute...