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...hard work...I prefer action to talk, plainspeak to prevarication, Bartley's Burger Cottage to the Harvest. In the last six years, I founded a new city fund for the purchase of open space, established the city's first extended school day program, initiated a major tree and flower-planting program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Candidates: Who They Are, Where They Stand | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...case you were worried about another stipulation, that Harry's memorial room be provided with a fresh flower each day, rest assured that the librarians have this well under control too. While the room is being cleaned and refurbished, a flower will be left for Harry in the rotunda. Mrs. Widener would be proud...

Author: By B.c. Wilkinson, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Breaking the Rules at Widener | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...yuppie angst. When the New Beetle was unveiled in 1998, the cough-drop-on-wheels was touted as the ultimate antidote to the ennui of the under-40 crowd. It was deja vu all over again: here was the "Love Bug," the charmingly rotund little symbol of all things flower-power, updated for the era of power-lunches. The folks at Volkswagen hoped to invoke the freewheeling Age of Aquarius (when most yuppies were too young or to stoned to care), making every yupster on the planet nostalgic for their childhood daze free of micromanagement. Young urban professionals did flock...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...yuppie angst. When the New Beetle was unveiled in 1998, the cough-drop-on-wheels was touted as the ultimate antidote to the ennui of the under-40 crowd. It was deja vu all over again: here was the "Love Bug," the charmingly rotund little symbol of all things flower-power, updated for the era of power-lunches. The folks at Volkswagen hoped to invoke the freewheeling Age of Aquarius (when most yuppies were too young or to stoned to care), making every yupster on the planet nostalgic for their childhood daze free of micromanagement. Young urban professionals did flock...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...kind of forum/class/seminar inhibits your ability to relax, cultural diversions are the solution. Students, their IDs, and five bucks meet chamber music and a flower-filled courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Fenway, Boston; 566-1401; T or No. 39 bus: Museum of Fine Arts; Thursday, Friday and Sunday afternoons and evenings; lectures, gallery and garden tours and jazz series are also offered; museum open Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pretentious, yes, but these soundscapes will soothe the mind, especially since there is no final exam...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Mental | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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