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...There are some things I hate about Annenberg—the food is at the top of the list—but nevertheless I am continuously drawn back to it through snow, wind, and rain. But there is a way to alleviate the nostalgia by returning upperclassmen to the jewel of Memorial Hall a few times a year...
...literary universe, but lately it has been overshadowed by almost every other genre--novels, comic books, self-help--or just channeled into other media, like rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can--if you have the time to stop and listen...
...downturn in prominence, the HRO is supremely respected by national music critics and Harvard administrators alike. Yannatos recalls a year when the orchestra was short on horn players, and appealed to the admissions office for help recruiting one. Officials there responded sympathetically, saying that a “jewel like the orchestra” could not be left without a horn and promptly accepted someone who fit the bill...
...detecting a "national malaise" in which "all our actions are punitive. We are intent on punishing one another, exacting penance." This flagellation is most evident in a trio of new British films. The wave of ironic celebrations of the imperial past (Chariots of Fire, A Passage to India, The Jewel in the Crown on TV) has ebbed, and on the shore we find the carcass of a small, irrelevant nation, reflected in the films of its sharpest young minds...
Even Bahrain, once the shining jewel of gulf finance, has been having troubles. The island country off the coast of Saudi Arabia emerged in the 1970s as a haven for Westerners and a banking center for the entire region. At one time local officials dreamed that it would become a world financial capital in a class with Singapore. No one talks that way today. The decline in construction financing and restrictions by Saudi Arabia on dealings in the riyal, the Saudi currency, have hurt business. Many banks, including Citibank and Chase Manhattan, have slashed staffs and slimmed operations...