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Each and every day, crowds of tourists—cameras in hand—swarm a seated, stoic John Harvard. While the statue—the third most photographed in the United States—and its supposedly lucky golden toe act as the hub of tourist activity in Harvard Yard, other statues and paintings that adorn the Yard manage to attract little more than dust—and maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello and Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Covering the Yard's Art | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...really turned it into the hub for both meetings and conferences in any interesting area of applied economics, or economics more generally,” said economics professor Lawrence F. Katz of Feldstein. “He sort of single-handedly put the bureau together and deserves infinite credit for its success...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Prof Replaces Feldstein At NBER | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...South China Mall in Dongguan, a manufacturing hub in Guangdong province, is the world's largest shopping center. Opened in 2005, it's a gaudy monument to the breakneck ascent of Chinese capitalism - 7 million sq. ft. (650,000 sq m) of leasable space, with wings designed to mimic Venice and the Champs Elysées. But, as Anthony J. Barbieri-Low notes in Artisans in Early Imperial China, the concept behind these new mainland megamalls (four of the globe's 10 biggest are in China) is quite old news. As in two millenniums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Mall | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...since the beginning of Christianity itself, and though they presumably fell in love and married just like everyone else for centuries, love became something of a cottage industry in Ankawa after the first Gulf war. When the Kurdistan broke away from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the town became a hub for single Christian men living abroad who could now return in search of a mate just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exile on Love Street | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Hetrick popped the question under the newly-installed spotlights of Week’s Memorial Bridge on Dec. 1, 2007 after a romantic dinner at Top of the Hub...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng and Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Love-SATs! | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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