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...School: President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who served from 1909 to 1933, initiated The Extension School as an enlargement of the Lowell Institute. Because Lowell House was already using the Lowell family arms, the Extension School designed another shield featuring two bushels of wheat, which was the fee for courses given originally by the Lowell Institute. Also, to signify learning by night, a burning lamp is shown at the base of the shield...
...think tank Strategic Forecasting www.stratfor.com) based in Austin, Texas. It publishes a daily "situation report" that chronicles the previous day's events in a no-nonsense way. I always manage to find things on that list that I have missed. Like most private-analysis sites, this one charges a fee to get at the juicy stuff...
Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...
...more americans are traveling by car these days, and the trip is always more pleasant with a great station on the radio. Two new companies are hoping drivers will be willing to pay a fee to make sure the music never fades. For $10 to $13 per month, satellite radio providers XM Radio and Sirius are each offering 100 channels of music, news, talk and sports that can be accessed anywhere in the country. "You can drive from New York to Seattle and never change the channel," says XM's spokesman Charles Robbins. "We are doing for radio what cable...
...tickets to Oh Calcutta! MATA HARI Lawyers say the French femme fatale was no spy, just a regular stripper. Taking no chances, Chirac orders strip searches of all cancan girls KEN FOLLETT Author gives $3,185 to charity so his name will be included in a fantasy novel. Our fee for his mention on this list? For $5 we'll call it even Losers PAUL STANLEY Singer's hip surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that 24-in. platform boots are not a good, long-term, orthopedic solution CHRISTIE'S Auction house cheats itself by selling million-dollar...