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...small-town feeling, the graceful domes that rise into the skyline and the Georgian architecture all contribute to the unique environment that Harvard provides. By introducing these modern eyesores into the community, the University is deconstructing one of its best attributes rather than accomplishing its unstated goal of modernization...
Perhaps our sentiments over this matter are best expressed by the well-known Bob Seger lyrics: "Call us relics, call us what you will. Say we're old fashioned, say we're over the hill. Today's buildings ain't got the same soul. We love our old-time Georgian homes...
...teams up with younger brother Tony in an enterprise to grow and export hazelnuts from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. The $118 million venture comes to a screeching halt when Bill and Hillary discover that the brothers' business partner also happens to be the chief political rival of Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, a key U.S. ally. Months later, Hugh and Tony were back in the headlines - the brothers reportedly thought it might be OK if they stopped actually growing the nuts and just kept exporting them. Once again, the White House was not amused...
...during the Microsoft trial, as a covey of reporters gathered around Boies, one of the chief opposing lawyers, John Warden, wandered by and cracked, "Ask him about his wine cellar." Warden might have suggested the reporters also ask about the gorgeous Georgian home that sits above those 8,000 bottles in Westchester County, N.Y., or about the oceangoing yacht, the Northern California ranch, the high-stakes poker games, the nearly annual chateau-to-chateau bike trips in Burgundy and Bordeaux. If Boies doesn't dress in the usual plumage of a flamboyant trial lawyer, it's only because he doesn...
...apartment is small--living room, dining room and den are a single medium sized room--and decorated in a 1970s modern style. The coffee tables are glass and most of the art is Asian. Aside from a photograph of Pusey with John F. Kennedy '40 with some Neo-Georgian buildings in the background, there is not a hint of the old Harvard look that once characterized his home in the Yard...