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Romano joined PBHA at the height of a programming expansion spurred by Reagan-era funding cuts in local service agencies. As a sophomore, he took responsibility for the agency's fledgling fundraising operations, helping account for 75 percent of its gifts in fiscal year 1987 and 80 percent in 1988. That same year he co-founded a service program targeted at the children of Asian refugees in Boston. For four years he was a big brother to a child of Cambridge's housing projects...
...bulging briefcase and the loyalty of his clan: several dozen relatives held jobs on the payroll. Third, Newhouse ardently avoided publicity and, above all, controversy. He kept so low a profile that he could walk unrecognized through his own newsrooms. Maybe the only thing he touted was his height: although biographer Richard Meeker says he was 5 ft. 2 in., Newhouse claimed a full inch more...
...investigation, researchers from the U.S. and Sweden analyzed weight and height records from the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. Reviewing data on 247 identical and 426 fraternal pairs of twins, the team found that siblings end up with similar body weights whether or not they are raised in different families, and that they are much more likely to grow up looking like their natural parents than their adoptive ones. "If both biologic parents are fat, about 80% of their kids are going to be fat," says Dr. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania...
Most of the old Montmartre cafes where Manet and Renoir once held court have long since given way to appliance stores and garages, but the artistic oases of the Left Bank have remained hospitable. Montparnasse reached its height during the 1920s, when Hemingway used to sit and write stories in the Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund...
...priority. And if the New York legislature, which is said to be only a vote shy in each chamber, finally overrides his veto? Then, says Cuomo, he will follow the law and sign whatever death warrants come his way. To commute all sentences blindly, he realizes, would be "the height of arrogance. I would never impose my personal views over...