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This is not to say the Blue Room is without its charms. Packed to its exposed wood rafters on a rainy Sunday night, the restaurant attracts a hearty dinner crowd of families, MIT types and the aforementioned business travelers. White tablecloths have been cast aside in favor of exposed metal tabletops, leaving a casual sort of place where you can ask to have a bite of your neighbor’s entrée (or at least that’s what the guy sitting next to me found appropriate). Finding high-quality food in such a low-pretense atmosphere...
...combination of wealth and a dominant regional style (plus, says Merchell, "a certain amount of keeping up with the Joneses") led to a flurry of Modernist-home construction that lasted into the '60s, and a parallel boom in Modernist public buildings and tract houses. The style fell out of favor in the '70s, and Palm Springs suffered a two-decade recession, from which it has only recently emerged. In 1997 a developer's threat to demolish Tramway Gas sparked a preservation movement and in turn a rush to snap up and restore the area's stock...
...Even with the ISI's help, conditions in the tribal territory still favor al-Qaeda. There are few roads into these mountain labyrinths, and as one Pakistani official gripes, "If we get a lead, it takes four days to send an agent up into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That should improve this June once Pakistan takes delivery of U.S. choppers and planes for border surveillance. A thornier problem for the American and ISI trackers is the tribesmen's natural affinity for bin Laden, his combative vision of Islam and the lure of big bucks from...
Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 recalls voting in favor of removing the Radcliffe name both times...
After walking the next batter, Guy was pulled in favor of freshman Lauren Tanner, who struck out Dartmouth’s Carly Haggard and extinguished the comeback attempt...