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...first image that came to mind was a nail. "It's the perfect combination of aerodynamics and strength," he says over coffee in the Munich conference room of Ruetz Technologies, his employer and partner in a venture to build the first mass-market ultralight car. Sommer's Loremo (pronounced lo-ray-mo) and short for Low Resistance Mobile - looks [an error occurred while processing this directive] nothing like a nail. On the contrary, it looks amphibious; Sommer and his partners first nicknamed it the bathtub. Even so, Sommer says the nail metaphor helped his team diverge from standard car chassis...
...Leone--set drama that depicts how gem sales funded African civil wars in the '90s. De Beers says it will spend $15 million to counter publicity its execs believe will hurt sales around the film's winter release. In other words, they're finally spending their profits from J. Lo's engagement rings...
...here. But to believe that the difference between a familiar meal at McDonald’s and a bowl of noodles on the street can mean a little extra something for kids who don’t often indulge—that, that is an amazing feeling. Lydia N. Lo ’09, a Crimson design editor, is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House...
TAPES 'N TAPES THE LOON If you like indie rock, you probably own a dozen albums just like this Minneapolis, Minn., band's taut, lo-fi debut--and you will want this one too. The lyrics are from the Pavement school of abstraction ("Kelly the insistor/ Your brother is a blister"), and lead singer Josh Grier has the same dry, almost cracking voice as David Byrne. What's original is Tapes 'n Tapes' ability to spin out compelling little mood fantasias, from the spooky isolation of Omaha to the drunken, bluesy instrumental Crazy Eights. The Loon feels eremitic and weird...
...future. Untutored in mathematics, we felt that the times have changed and that the fact of past expansion has little to do with possibilities for future growth. Leaving the past to President Pusey, Dean Bundy occupied himself with the future. Knowingly, he predicted a tuition rise last October. Lo and behold, in January the prediction came true, as tuition rose to $1000 for next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher—simultaneously, of course, with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours...