Word: footing
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...company decided last month to renovate a 59,000-square foot space at Five Cambridge Center, near MIT, according to the Boston Business Journal. The new space will replace the company’s current 18,000-square foot Cambridge office and with the move, scheduled for early 2008, the branch will become Google’s regional headquarters...
...bathtub,” and you’ll probably come across a YouTube link for Tegan and Sara’s video for “The Con.” The meek opening chords, when coupled with successive shots of a nervously-jiggling, Converse-clad foot, followed by Tegan draped melancholically on a therapist’s couch, set the angst factor rather high. The ashy tones and urban feel just ooze somberness. The girls betray just enough tongue-in-cheek sensibility, however, that we’re willing to stomach some lonesome bed-writhing. The story...
Open ambition is a dangerous thing for a mafioso. For years, Salvatore Lo Piccolo managed to mask his highest aspirations as he rose from loyal foot soldier to the upper reaches of the Mafia hierarchy. The 65-year-old Palermo native always seemed to know how to wind up on the winning side of internal feuds, a gift that eventually made him supreme boss in the Sicilian capital. But Lo Piccolo wanted more: control over the entire island of Sicily, expanded cooperation with U.S. mobsters, even the title of capo dei capi - the boss of bosses...
Frank O. Gehry, the renowned architect and Design School graduate, is the subject of a negligence suit brought by MIT for alleged flaws in his design of the Stata Center, the 720,000-square-foot academic complex that anchors the campus. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...first sight, you can’t help but think, “Him?” Five foot nothing, one hundred and nothing, this is one of Harvard’s most versatile athletes? Yes. Admittedly, junior Drew Davis is hardly a physical presence. Yet, despite his size, he carries himself with an athlete’s grace—shoulders back, spine straight, and focused blue eyes. After meeting him, you can suddenly picture it: Davis guiding the crew team, standing on the diving platform, and churning his feet along the pavement. Davis holds the rare distinction...