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...people who committed to living downtown for two years, as well as one-time payments of up to $1,000 for existing residents who stayed put. The sweeteners brought in new residents, who revitalized big apartment complexes like Battery Park City and pushed developers to convert old office buildings in the financial district into apartments, a trend already under way before 9/11. More than 36,000 people now live in lower Manhattan, up 58% from 2000. Those young, affluent newcomers have attracted posh new stores like Sephora and Hermčs and new restaurants like Bobby Van's Steakhouse, lighting...
...early on a sunny morning in southern Mexico that my family gathered in an outdoor kitchen, ready to convert a mountain of ingredients into a four-course feast. Sun-dried chili peppers, fresh nuts, chunk chocolate and a score of other ingredients were waiting to be blended into a spicy mole sauce. Crisp jicamas had been set aside for salad. The buds of Castilian roses would be transformed into ice cream. It was an ambitious menu--especially since none of us had any idea how to make those dishes. But that was the point. We had enrolled in a daylong...
...cashmere-style sweaters.While their Kennedy School classmates head off to jobs at the United Nations and on Capitol Hill, Carol Chyau and Marie So will launch an enterprise that will bring “Yashmere” from rural China to Western wardrobes.Chyau and So are hatching plans to convert the soft, cashmere-like yak down fiber from the Yunnan Province into high-quality yarn sold on the international knitters’ market.The two students say they want to use innovative business solutions to tackle development challenges. To improve living standards in rural communities in western China, they have launched...
...senior lecturer, Payzant will convert his experience in educational administration into material suitable for the classroom...
...team’s sixth-straight Northern Championship.Hartwick shut out Harvard in the first and third quarters and took a 4-1 lead into halftime.“We had our chances early on,” Farrar said. “We just didn’t convert.”Sophomore driver Vivian Liao scored twice to lead the Crimson.The championship game marked the final home game for Harvard’s four seniors: captain drivers Arin Keyser and Sarah Kennifer, goaltender Lydia Gardner, and 2M-O Molly Mehaffey.“It wasn?...