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...dose of high culture needn't mean a trek to the Wang Center or Symphony Hall. The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, directed by Adam Grossman, is opening its 1998-99 season tonight with a concert of music by Moussorgsky, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Barber--the exciting "Night on Bald Mountain" is one of the featured works. 3 p.m. Agassiz School, corner of Oxford and Sacramento St., 547-9477, FREE...
...Harvard, it's hard to resist becoming a rat. The temptations to run in the rat race while here and after are all around us, with constant talk of "elite" grad schools, firms and fellowships. Running is both socially acceptable and promoted. A regular dose of healthy perspective of life outside the walls of the Yard is needed as an antidote to these temptations...
Today energy bars are increasingly being targeted to weekend warriors and office workers. They're pitched as a way to eat breakfast on the run or to dose up with a burst of energy late in the workday--to help, as PowerBar says, with "life's daily marathons." But as they enter the mainstream, many are dropping the ascetic rubber-brick ethos in favor of more savory--and fat-laden--formulas that appeal to a wider market...
...Booth Tarkington are suddenly floating around the airwaves, making their way into circles of conversation and, no doubt, appearing in paperback at The Coop, Random House stands to profit. Indeed, the company plans to reissue 10 more novels from the list in the coming year. But is this dose of unabashed consumerism enough to make us want to sneer at the entire project? Not really. The truth is, Americans aren't exactly eating up literary fiction these days. If it takes a bit of corporate motivation to put these books back on our personal shelves, then...
...rain-drenched crowds that lined East Boston's streets on Sunday for the annual Columbus Day Parade received not only Tootsie Rolls from the passing floats, but also a healthy dose of hand-shakes...