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Robert "Bob" I. Slate, owner of the Bob Slate Stationer store and a Harvard Square icon for more than 60 years, died at his Woburn home September...
...huge, dangerous, pet-worthy creatures and its cunning use of special effects to make the fauna realistic. Add a dollop of Hollywood eco-mania, portraying the park owner as a predatory capitalist who would kill Willy for the insurance money. And wrap this around the summer's favorite icon: the fatherless boy who teaches everyone else -- surrogate parents, adult friends and a nearby cetacean -- how to be human. The movie hits every emotional button with a firm fist. It makes the phrase feel-good sound like a command from the industry's P.C. Patrol...
Obviously dissatisifed with present, run-of-the-mill name, Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) has re-christened himself. The pop star is now insisting that he be referred to as the icon oat left, a symbol he devise, for which there is no pronunciation. "This is not a joke," said his publicist. "This is very serious." If other celebrities follow Prince's lead, we could imminently see the following names on the gossip pages...
This semester, Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 did his part to cleave the campus along ideological lines. Mansfield, the conservative icon of Harvard's predominantly liberal Faculty, linked the admissions office's affirmative action policies with grade inflation at Harvard...
...drink of choice for young children, one of nature's most perfect foods. Sure, it's a little heavy on fat, but to Americans at least, a tall glass of milk remains an icon of health, nutrition and clean-cut values -- the drink Mom pours for you when she serves her apple pie. No wonder, then, that the ground seemed to tremble a bit in the nation's capital last week when the biotechnology industry faced off with consumer advocates over a matter of concern to every U.S. household: Do new high-tech production methods threaten the safety of American...