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...late November, Citizens will open a two-story, 12,000-square-foot branch in the shop that Abercrombie & Fitch vacated last June. Early next year, Sovereign Bank will open a two-story branch in the empty storefront between CVS and Fleet Bank...
...practiced together all that much,” said captain Laura Schubert, who sailed with senior Genny Tulloch. Junior Sloan Devlin sailed with sophomore Christine Dahlman and junior Jess Baker sailed with junior Ruth Schlitz; alternate crews, senior Jenny Wong and junior Mallory Greimann, completed the Crimson fleet...
...THAT "THERE IS NOT THE slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." Thomas Edison thought alternating current would be a waste of time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once predicted, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that airplanes would never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove...
...crestfallen. And pissed as hell. Recall that this is the fourth bank (next to Fleet, Cambridge Trust, and Cambridge Savings) to settle down within a 100-yard radius of Out-of-Town News. A fifth, Sovereign Bank, is “Coming Soon.” This wouldn’t be so lamentable were it an isolated incident. But, as we well know, it’s part of a much more pernicious and destructive pattern: the de-Harvardization of Harvard Square...
...smooth sailing: shares in U.K. cell-phone operator Virgin Mobile dipped below their July offer price; and at the rollout of Virgin Trains' latest high-speed service in Britain , two of the $20 million trains were temporarily taken out of service on opening day. Within a new 53-strong fleet, "you're going to get the occasional problem," says Branson. No sign yet of this tycoon slowing down. Tough Competition In her confirmation hearings before the European Parliament last week, Neelie Kroes, the E.U.'s incoming antitrust chief, described herself as "a tough girl." She'd better...