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Though educational institutions often pride themselves on being the ultimate meritocracies, when these same institutions vie for funding from the government, foundations and corporations, success can be determined by factors other than merit. Harvard's age, its mammoth endowment and extensive alumni networks all affect how big a piece of the national pie Harvard calls...
...that recently moved in downtown, Integrated Technology Group, which makes software for robotic controls. Gus Comstock, the city's economic development director, sees this as the right kind of business for the future. It is high paying, clean, and does not tax the local infrastructure. "You don't need mammoth loading docks," says Comstock. "You can get $1 million in software in the back...
...mammoth five run outburst in the second inning, rust was a thing of the past for the Crimson as it stormed in front of the Big Green and never looked back...
...members of the Middlesex County Bar Association devoured a meal of kidneys and scallops wrapped in bacon, baked potatoes and mammoth swordfish steaks, Harshbarger spoke to the group about his plans for reforming the state's juvenile justice system...
...crash of 1987 is in great part responsible for 42nd Street's rebirth as a middle-class destination. Earlier in the decade the city and state agreed on an ambitious $2.5 billion redevelopment plan for 42nd Street and Times Square, the driving force of which was to be four mammoth, nearly identical office towers designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee as a kind of chilly Rockefeller Center South. Fortunately for fans of Times Square's higgledy-piggledy aesthetic, the late-'80s economic downturn pulled the rug out from under that plan. And there was this added benefit: the developers...