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...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team had three representatives at the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. this weekend. Junior diver Samantha Papadakis and senior swimmer Noelle Bassi both repeated their 2006 appearances in the meet, but it was newcomer Alexandra Clarke that impressed the most. On Saturday at the Minnesota Aquatic Center, Clarke placed 17th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 16:21.43, just one spot short of being named an All-American. Although she was out of scoring range, she still managed to reset her school record in the 1000-yard with...
...core BOB DYLAN fans will find no rolling stone unturned at an ambitious symposium at the University of Minnesota's Weisman Art Museum later this month. "Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World" includes a bus tour through the folk bard's hometown of Hibbing, Minn., and chats with authors and musicians on such topics as "Einstein Disguised as Robin Hood: The Enigmatic Jewishness of Bob Dylan" and "Hotter Than a Crotch: Bob Dylan at the Borderline of Sleaze." Symposium organizer Colleen Sheehy, explaining Dylan's appeal, says, "He's someone people love to argue about...
...classes, all the extracurriculars, and service I’d done.”A homeschooling parent who considers herself more of a “general contractor” than a teacher, Carla Jentoft educated her three children in the family’s Circle Pines, Minn., home. Having studied abroad during college, this high school valedictorian and her husband wanted to provide their children with a rigorous education including a solid foundation in the humanities. Unsatisfied with local schools and armed with Carla Jentoft’s teaching degree from St. Olaf College, they decided to homeschool...
Absent from the preview was Target executive Trish Adams, the woman responsible for green-lighting the New York City designer as the retailer's latest glamorous liaison. Adams, it turns out, was more than a thousand miles away at the company's Minneapolis, Minn., headquarters. Nose down, no piccolo. Adams, like Gina Sprenger, her counterpart at Target's furniture division, is accustomed to toiling behind the scenes, brokering profitable alliances at a time when almost every mainstream retailer is craving a dose of designer cachet. These days you are nothing without your boldface co-conspirators. H&M has Madonna. Kohl...
...forefront of green innovation in terms of product and store design?in the beauty business or any business?is Minnesota-based Aveda. For decades, Aveda has concentrated on using green energy, renewable resources and plant-based alternatives to synthetic ingredients. Its distribution center in Blaine, Minn., is 100% wind powered. Its makeup casings are refillable, and a candle that Aveda created last year won an award for its packaging, which contained makeready paper, used by printing presses to prepare for a job. Aveda claims to be the world's largest purchaser of organic essential oils, and to make...