Word: mecca
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...with cabaret stockings and hints of stage makeup, he looks the part. He and Dolls lead singer Amanda M. Palmer were the main attraction during the festivities at Harvard Square’s Newbury Comics—a place Viglione described as “The Mecca of all things cool”—for the first annual Record Store Day last Saturday.Organized by an alliance of music stores, including greater Boston area chain Newbury Comics, Record Store Day was celebrated nationwide with in-store appearances from independent music artists as well as special vinyl-only releases from...
...Sound like a Mecca for lazy Harvard students? Don’t hold your breath...
...beautiful city, in this instance, is not San Francisco or Berlin; it's Mysore, in southern India, which each year draw several thousand yoga pilgrims from around the world. Mysore began its journey towards yoga mecca-dom in 1931, when a 40-something, five-foot-two-inch Brahmin was summoned by the ailing monarch of what was then a princely state under British tutelage. Numerous doctors had failed to cure the king's affliction, but the yogi succeeded within a few months, and the king rewarded him by building him a yogashala (yoga school) in his grand palace...
...first graduating class at Dale Carnegie Training, which has just set up shop in the IT mecca of Bangalore, has lapped up its lessons in the art of winning friends and influencing people in transnational corporate culture. Among the Indian techies and management graduates who flocked to this Silicon Valley-in-training opportunity is 28-year-old IT professional Pallavi Deshpande. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these IT people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," she says, "And I realized that my MCA [master's degree in Computer Applications...
...bigger touch-screens in the dining halls. And they’ll smell terrible, since Harvard will have shut off their shower to conserve water and make the campus “greener.” But at least they will have four glorious years in Harvard Square, that mecca of neighborhood banking and tortilla-wrapped fast food...