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...will be up for grabs,” Marsh says. “We are the 15th seed out of 16, so we aren’t expected to do well, but we have a really strong team.” Although Ultimate Frisbee, which originated in a New Jersey high school in 1968, was originally associated with a liberal, counter-culture movement, the game has evolved into a more competitive sport. Harvard Red Line Co-Captain William P. Chen ’06 says associating the sport with hippies is a misconception.“Some teams are still...
...Lower East Side. Her father's mother had a compelling story, having come from a small village in Latvia where the family shared a single pair of shoes. In New York City, she sold vegetables from a pushcart and eventually opened a successful dress shop in New Jersey...
...well as friends and millions of viewers—from finding out that he had won CBS’s “The Amazing Race 9,” a fact revealed on Wednesday night’s season finale. Averell visited his parents in New Jersey last week and found himself battered by maternal speculation. “She kept asking me, ‘Why are you back on the East Coast?’” Averell recounted. “‘You wouldn’t be here unless you got eliminated...
...hallmark of another penny-ante House scandal of the '90s.) And as for that Congressional pin that can get you around Hill metal detectors, well, that and $2,800 can buy you a really nice dinner. It's not even much of a chick magnet; in 2003, New Jersey Representative Mike Ferguson made the Washington Post with his late-night attempt to impress a Georgetown student...
...Real Estate at M.I.T. Sept. 11 only accelerated the northern shift by the law firms and investment banks that for decades had anchored Wall Street. Immediately after 9/11, many financial firms, including Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, moved their employees to other locations around the city and to nearby Jersey City, N.J. Government officials persuaded Goldman Sachs to erect a building near ground zero, but at a cost of more than $1.6 billion in Liberty Bonds--low-cost, tax-exempt bonds issued by the city and state governments. The city and state provided an additional $150 million in tax breaks...