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...Harvard’s Freshman International Program (FIP). Tackling the issues that immediately face students from a foreign country, FIP helps internationals obtain social security numbers, bank accounts, and cell phones, and also introduces them to the Cambridge and Boston area through a variety of trips, including one to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game.It can be an international student’s first introduction to American culture, and without the socially engaging, diverse FIP leadership staff, the process of adjustment would be vastly more difficult. “I was a FIP refugee,” Gong says.Despite...
...under the age of 21 from attending clubs after 11 p.m., essentially limiting the club scene to the over-21 crowd.A CIVIC RESPONSESafety concerns may have triggered City Hall’s restrictions, particularly one event three months ago at the Avalon, a nightclub on Lansdowne Street next to Fenway Park. On Nov. 26, 2006, bouncer Craig Vierra was stabbed by a 20-year-old man and later died in the hospital.“You know they did all this [the new restrictions] because a friend of mine got stabbed,” says Erich J. Lamb, who spends...
...AIA’s poll 1,804 “randomly selected” Americans were instructed to pick their preferred choice of architecture from a list of 248 buildings prepared by an AIA panel. Sever beat famous buildings like Fenway Park (ranked 113) and New York’s Radio City Music Hall (100) to snag slot 77, standing as the only Harvard-affiliated building on the list...
...team that already outspends everyone but the Yankees. You already have the second-largest contract ever on your books. Your tickets are far and away the most expensive in baseball, not to mention the hardest to get. How exactly are mortal fans supposed to get within a mile of Fenway Park next season? How much sense does it make that ticket prices in the ultimate college town are out of students’ leagues? Here’s some news for the Yawkey brain trust: All of Boston is Red Sox Nation, not just Louisburg Square—yet it?...
...Japanese fans may be a little fuzzy on Beantown's traditions, though. Toshiyuki Nagao, a lifelong fan, expressed concern that "there are many academic and white-collar people in Boston, who might not appreciate baseball's earthy passion." Nagao-san, you'll find plenty of earthy passion in the Fenway bleachers.) But some guardians of the Japanese game fear that Matsuzaka's departure means that the 86-year-old Japanese pro leagues have become little more than a offshore farm system for the U.S. "We'll lose our best," Katsuya Nomura, manager of the Rakuten Eagles, told the Mainichi Shimbun...