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...them and their accomplishment,” he said. Lowell House Master Diana Eck addressed the mid-year graduates, praising their unconventional experiences at Harvard. “I think there is something really valuable about graduating midyear and thinking about Harvard in a different way, as more than hoopla. The real Harvard is not the ‘Fair Harvard’ of tubas and marching bands; it is a community of thought and wisdom,” she said. Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter encouraged students to reflect and record what they liked most about their Harvard...
Beyond the hoopla was the naked quest for sales. And it turns out the bassfest was good business all around. Genmar, Jacobs' boatbuilding company, moved more boats; Ranger continues to gain share in a flat market. Wal-Mart, meanwhile, got a boost because fishing made its stores more attractive to men, who have a tendency to shop well beyond Department 9--sporting goods--and visit other parts of the store...
...campaign hoopla, though, was partly upstaged by more dramatic doings 2,000 miles away in Lebanon. There, Michel Seurat, 39, a French Middle East researcher who was kidnaped in Beirut last May by the shadowy pro-Iranian Shi'ite-dominated terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, purportedly had been executed as a French spy. The terrorists released three black-and-white photographs that showed a bare-chested Seurat with unfocused, half-closed eyes, a shrouded figure in a closed coffin. Although his body has not yet been found, there appeared to be little hope that he was still alive...
...movies, it's Natalie Portman. in music, it's Norah Jones. And in fashion, it's Phoebe Philo. "It," in this case, refers to a woman who, without much hype or hoopla, emerges as the leader of the pack in her field, the swan the others paddle behind like cygnets. All three women are young and down-to-earth. And everybody wants a piece of them, or in Philo's case, as many pieces - bags, skirts, dresses - as they can afford. But unlike Portman or Jones, Philo is not yet a household name. She is the 31-year-old creative...
...movies, it's Natalie Portman. In music, it's Norah Jones. And in fashion it's Phoebe Philo. "It," in this case, refers to a woman who, without much hype or hoopla, emerges as the leader of the pack in her field, the swan the others paddle behind like cygnets. All three women are young and down to earth. And everybody wants a piece of them, or in Philo's case, as many pieces--bags, skirts, dresses--as they can afford. But unlike Portman or Jones, Philo is not yet a household name. She is the 31-year-old creative...