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Nevertheless, the team behind our local outpost of Herrell’s wants to reassure the community that they are here to stay. “This is a metamorphosis,” said Jeffrey Stannett, president of Leamil Corporation, which owns the franchise. Taking Herrell’s place is First Printer Restaurant Bar and Grill, which will be led by Stannett and the same management that currently operates the store...
Current Harvard students may also find the news difficult to swallow. “I’m devastated,” said Hunter M. Richard ’12, who said he frequents Herrell’s every Sunday. “It felt like a local place with a nice, home-grown spirit...
Though from an Electoral College perspective, New York will almost certainly remain a Democratic state, the state has certainly elected Republican governors in the past and could certainly do so again. A Republican governor would put tremendous pressure on local Democratic leaders and the state legislature. Further, if Giuliani were elected governor of New York, he might pose a threat to President Obama’s own reelection bid in 2012. It is quite reasonable, then, for President Obama to communicate his concerns to Governor Paterson so as to avoid the many problems for the Democratic Party that an unsuccessful...
...party that has not always made the most savvy electoral decisions. President Obama must represent all of America, but he is wise to take an aggressive role in the positioning and organization of his party, not just at the nationwide level of government, but also at the state and local level...
...profit tutoring is “a natural fit.” Mark Greenstein, founder and director of an entirely for-profit SAT preparation program, Ivy Bound, is less optimistic about the sustainability of programs like Climbing Ivy. Though Ivy Bound has an outreach program in low-income areas, local schools cover the cost for these programs. “More power to them,” said Greenstein of Ivy Key, “but no one can just donate their time.” Harvard Sociology lecturer David L. Ager has more hope for entrepreneurial efforts to help...