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...fast-paced urban Boston, the old ways, though not entirely extinct, are fast fading. “Lifestyles have changed,” says Robert Minturn ’61, a member of the Somerset Club. “Young people work-they have a sandwich at their desk and then go to the gym for 40 minutes. They won’t spend an hour and a half at the Somerset in the middle of the day.” Even the older crowd is more likely to power-lunch at Radius and later cap the day by working...
...grade-school drawing looked typically innocent, at least in its style. The subjects were two stick figures, one of them wearing a loopy smile. But the teacher in San Bernardino, Calif., who found it stowed in a student's desk was alarmed by the story line. One grinning stick figure wielded a gun. The other, frowning, had just been shot...
...Abbess in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a baby-faced actress with a Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...
...Elizabeth and her mother took the only way out: they went to work. Elizabeth sat at her mother's desk and colored and cruised www.americangirl.com while her mother, a research scientist, worked in a glass-walled lab a few feet away. Elizabeth drank plenty of fluids, got lots of hugs and ate lunch with Mom in the employee cafeteria. The next day she went back to school while her mother played catch-up at work...
...Desk facing wall discourages colleague trust by inviting back-stabbing (literally...