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Other Bostonians included among the 25 range from boutique owners and designers to athletes and CEOs, all chosen for “that certain something—a spark that transforms mere good taste into bona fide style,” according to the Globe...
...assistant to Tom Ford, the Gucci Group's design czar. In 2004, when Ford departed, Pilati took over at the house of Saint Laurent. Early on, fashion editors left his runway shows disappointed, but more recently they have warmed to his designs and declared him a bona fide talent...
...logical step for Chu would have been to sign up as a coach for Harvard. The departures of assistants Claudia Asano, who was hired as the head coach at Union, and Michelle McAteer left plenty of room on the Crimson staff, and with Chu's credentials as a bona fide leader and one of the best players in school history, Stone was more than ready to welcome the two-time Olympian and former co-captain aboard...
...draft eligibility, is coming off what he called a “relatively poor” junior season in which he hit .331 but managed only three home runs and a mere 17 RBI. Opposing pitchers were careful with him as the squad’s lone bona fide slugger and he earned a team-leading 20 walks. His 12 extra-base hits and .484 slugging percentage were career lows. That may have led to Wilson, who admitted getting nervous as the draft wore on, lingering on the board longer than expected...
President Summers seemed to mistake the campus’s persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue” for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue” is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake...