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...been. Boston has more bookstores than San Diego will ever dream of supporting. Cambridge is steeped in history, so much so that every time I walk down Garden Street I notice a new commemorative plaque. This is a society accustomed to occupying the center of things--"the hub," as Professor John Stilgoe told the Class of 1997 during our orientation week four years...
...there is no greater hub than Harvard, through which the world's most prominent citizens routinely pass. Harvard's library system offers unparalleled facilities for browsing and research. Walking through Harvard Square on a balmy evening, listening to street musicians and observing the variety of people, it is hard to imagine what more one could want...
...like to believe Eliot was thinking of Harvard when he wrote these lines. For that is Harvard's function: to give us the license to explore, for a heady four years, the boundaries of knowledge in one hub of the universe. And then to let us return where we came from, ready to share what we have learned...
...number is 45 percent and falling. The airline has informed its employees that as many as 220 workers at BWI, or one fourth of the 860 full-and part-time gate workers, ticket agents and mechanics, will be laid off as USAirways continues a cost-cutting reorganization of its hub system by routing more flights through Philadelphia. The moves are an attempt to continue the remaking of US Airways into the giant it once was and not the bloated behemoth that did not have a profitable year between 1988 and 1995. Since Stephen M. Wolf was elected chairman in early...
...gift helps us maintain the high quality of Korean studies at Harvard," said Brandt in the press release. "Many American business people view Korea as a vital hub of economic activity in the Pacific...