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...gift bag has trickled down to every local charity function, and Distinctive Assets is constantly asked to do bar mitzvahs, weddings and dinner parties, which they sometimes will as a favor to a big client or celebrity. Madison & Mulholland, a gift-bag company in New York City, even produces bags several times a year for United Airlines' first-class passengers and the Hampton Jitney, which is a commuter bus between Manhattan and Long Island, N.Y. ?People who go out to the Hamptons are trendsetters,? says Jane Ubell-Meyer, who founded Madison & Mulholland four years ago. We will...
...some payback,” said junior center Brian Cusworth, who led all scorers with 18 points in the overtime loss. With six of the eight Wildcats players who saw action in that game returning for tonight’s contest, Harvard will get that chance to return the favor. The key to doing so will be stopping Vetrano, last year’s miracle worker, and junior guard Jermaine Anderson, who led the Wildcats (1-3) with 17 points in that contest. The backcourt duo should provide a tough challenge for Harvard’s perimeter defense...
...program, needs $A10,000 in start-up funding to gather reproductive and tissue samples from perhaps 100 wild and captive dingoes as "an insurance policy" against extinction, says project director Shae Cox. The funding offers aren't rolling in, but Cox senses public opinion is starting to shift in favor of the animals' long-term survival. While storing semen for artificial insemination projects, the team will also research reproductive behavior, which, like much about the dingo, remains little studied. "No one has taken a lot of interest in them," says Cox. "They're classified as vermin...
...federal funding, Kagan announced in October that the school would cooperate with recruiters and exempt the military from its nondiscrimination policy.According to Paik, the task force will develop possible responses to the Rumsfeld v. FAIR decision, expected sometime next year.“If the decision comes out in favor of FAIR, we hope [the University] will take immediate action to reenact its nondiscrimination policy,” Paik said, adding that University administrators “really need to start thinking now about what sorts of actions that they need to take in the future.”Paik...
...writing in response to Michael M. Grynbaum’s article “Recruiting a New Elite” (Nov. 18, news). I am here at Harvard largely because of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. However, unlike the girl from Oklahoma who rejected Harvard in favor of a state university, I don’t want to be a housewife. And although I come from Alabama, a state “where not very many students come to Harvard,” I usually don’t refer to people who live in New England...