Word: coasting
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Race and ethnic studies as we know it today owes its birth to activist students. Violent campus protests at San Francisco State led to the first ethnic studies program in 1968, and similar departments sprang up at universities up and down the West Coast soon afterward. Although the RES movement has lagged behind on the East Coast, it has made some substantial gains. Along with African American studies, Cornell offers majors in Asian American and Latino studies; Yale offers a major in ethnicity, race and migration; and UMass Boston features a Hispanic studies department and an Asian American institute...
Harvard will be off for the next two weeks until it travels to California over spring break. The Crimson will kick things off on the West Coast at the Sacramento State Tournament on March...
Harvard then heads to Fresno State and Stanford for a pair of double-dips on March 23 and 24, respectively, before wrapping up its West-Coast swing in Fremont, CA, with a contest against Portland State or Bakersfield followed by the California Hayward Tournament...
...stores in 17 states. Whole Foods rose to dominance in a three-year buying spree during which it acquired New England's Bread and Circus, North Carolina's Wellspring Markets and California's Mrs. Gooch's. Last year the company swallowed its biggest rival, the 22-store East Coast chain Fresh Fields, leaving Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo.--one-quarter its size--as the only two national natural-foods chains...
Actually, this clothing and linen specialty store chain, based in Canada, has 35 stores in the U.S. from coast to coast--obviously, the New England aesthetic is spreading (no shopper need be without his or her duvet cover). Also, belying its image, the store lacks that cold "look but don't touch" Victorian mentality. Signs literally plead with customers to "Please Touch," noting that "to fully appreciate the beauty of our prints, we invite you to unfold, examine, and explore their many patterns and textures...