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...Gear regularly pulls in more than 7 million viewers, roughly a quarter of all Britons watching TV during the program's Sunday-night slot. Chalk that up to the show's high speed and high production values: crazy challenges and outlandish races - an Aston Martin versus a train between England and Monte Carlo, for instance (the Aston won) - are, like the rest of the show, beautifully shot and edited. Add in the bickering, bantering, male-but-not-macho presenters, and Top Gear has "touched something in the zeitgeist," says Steve Hewlett, a former British TV exec turned media consultant...
...playing with him, he’s easy to work with, and he doesn’t let his ego get in the way of things. He’s just very good.” STUDENTThat talent can still be a burden.As part of the Harvard/New England Conservatory Five-Year Program, Campbell hikes across the river three days a week to take classes at the NEC. Even excluding time spent on rehearsal, lessons, jam sessions, and shows, Campbell practices an average of three hours each weekday, meaning that the he expects to start his homework around 9 p.m. Campbell?...
...entire week, the Mac Quad, home of frisbee and IM sports, has been dominated by a large, white event tent. It is to house the second annual Project East fashion show, hypothetically keeping attendees safe from the New England elements. Yet bad news arrives on Saturday night when the National Weather Service announces a flood watch for Cambridge. By the time doors open for the show the lawn is becoming a muddy mess. The tent can’t prevent the water from soaking the ground, and audience members find themselves walking through mire that sucks their shoes down. Kristin...
...Boston’s city hospitals—including the HMS affiliated and top-ranked Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital Boston—have planned and embarked on multi-million dollar expansion projects. MGH, the largest hospital in New England and the third oldest general hospital in the U.S., broke ground last September on a $144 million outpatient care facility in Danvers. While the new regulations should not affect the Children’s Hospital’s proposed expansion plans in the North Shore, spokeswoman Michelle Davis wrote...
...sins as "accumulating excessive wealth and creating poverty." This would presumably be the same Catholic Church that condemns a large portion of the Third World to continuing poverty due to its blinkered prohibition of contraception? And no doubt speaking from the opulent splendor of the Vatican? Bob Bury, LEEDS, ENGLAND...