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...councillors earn praise from many sides for reforms, including filling the long-empty post of police commissioner, negotiating a landmark in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Harvard and forming the mayor's committee to study town-gown issues, appointing new heads of the Department of Public Works and the Water Department and passing an ordinance requiring condom vending machines in Cambridge restaurants...
...this time in a backless paper dress -- only to be handed a bunch of insurance forms and a prescription for pills that make you logy. Your back still hurts, so you're referred to a fancy specialist. More X rays. More insurance forms. More waiting in a backless paper gown, followed by talk of disk surgery from a doctor who looks as if his back hurts. It sounds awful, and next comes the final insult, the letter from your insurance company: "See rejection code...
They're beautiful, that's obvious. But they have something else: presence, or maybe allure, fascination or magic. Whatever it is, it hits the instant one sees Naomi Campbell in a yellow totem gown, a Nefertiti of the '90s. Or Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek...
Harvard officials say they sympathize with the positions of other schools and add that their agreement probably cannot be considered a model for other town-gown deals...
...universities and cities or towns are all different in the ways they function," says Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, Harvard's director of community relations and a member of the new town-gown task force. "It's like comparing apples and oranges...