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...Mill Valley, Calif., in a one-bedroom apartment above a coin-operated laundry, Andre Mehr, a white 17-year-old with a crew cut, and Emiliano Obiedo, a ponytailed 16-year-old who is half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...
...atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares her isolation, and an intense connection is born of their mutual dependency. Still, Isabelle yearns for more--her boss, sex, an existence outside the lonely one she shares with her child: she "could not bear to stop thinking that her real life would happen somewhere else...
...sure it would change people's opinions," said Alvin R. Cabrera '00, a Lowell House resident. "It's run-of-the-mill evangelical text...
...text was more than run-of-the-mill: it was targeted. Wishnatsky emphasized his Harvard connection throughout the letter by drawing attention to his career as an undergraduate, his Ph.D. in political science and the Veritas motto. In his e-mail message, Wishnatsky wrote that he remembered Harvard as "morally sick," and expressed fears that...
Though it's hard to believe today, discount retailing was a controversial concept when it began to gain ground in the '50s at stores such as Ann & Hope, which opened in a reclaimed mill in Cumberland, R.I. Traditional retailers hated it, and so did manufacturers; it threatened their control of the marketplace. Most states had restrictions on the practice...