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...don’t want the neighborhood to lose all its families and long-term residents and to be a stopping point for people who are there for a short time, because that is already affecting the quality of the community,” says Bob Van Meter, the executive director of the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation...
...general view in the neighborhood is that undergraduates very often don’t think about their neighbors very much and they tend to be less considerate than students who are a little bit older,” Van Meter says...
Entering the race with the third-fastest qualifying time, the first varsity found itself in the fourth position following the first 500 meters of the grand finals, with Princeton leading and Cal and Virginia close behind, separated from each other by two seats. Less than that distanced them from the Black and White. By the next 500-meter mark, the Cavaliers had fallen off pace and were passed by Radcliffe, which built a two-seat advantage...
...economy, they see little else to be excited about. Employment has picked up, but wages haven't. Inflation has risen from the grave. The stock market is crawling to get back to where it was five years ago. Savings accounts throw off barely enough interest to feed a parking meter. Companies are cutting pensions, and politicians are making dire noises about Social Security. It's a scary message people are getting: We are heading toward a future in which we will need more money than ever to avert disaster, and there are fewer opportunities to get it. So people...
...woman greeted her husband in a costume of nothing but Saran Wrap bound up with a red ribbon. Another wanted to greet her husband "a la gypsy with beads, bangles and bare skin," but when she went to the door, she was surprised to confront an "equally surprised water-meter reader." Marabel admits, moreover, that she herself "looked foolish and felt even more so" the first time she dressed up in "pink baby-doll pajamas and white boots after my bubble bath." -TIME, March...