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...Naming generations is a tricky project. Jack Kerouac was successful in naming his Beat Generation, but few others have been able to give their own generation a lasting moniker. The Baby Boomers—our parents—were given their name before they had done much more than arrive. The Greatest Generation—our grandparents—only got that label decades after they had earned it. Some have tried to call our generation a “Lost Generation,” echoing Gertrude Stein, who coined the term in reference to the original Lost Generation...
...think that he has already paid a huge penalty by having his name dragged...
Oona's Experienced Clothing will close June 6 to undergo a renovation before opening under new management (and the same name) in August. Oona's, located on Massachusetts Avenue between Bow and Arrow Streets, has become a Cambridge landmark over the course of its 38-year-history. In order to reduce its inventory before closing, it is offering 50 percent off nearly everything. Get your Halloween shopping done (really) early and on the cheap...
...name is Johnny Bowman—I'm the president of the Undergraduate Council [But you probably already know this.]—and we've been up to a ton of things this semester [Good to know.], but I'd like to focus on three things that I think will really help out students' lives for the rest of the semester and the next year. The first thing is the online events calendar that we're improving right now [Good work on the events calendar - if only more people knew about it!]. It's going to organize...
Once Wheeler gained acceptance to Bowdoin College and graduated from Caesar Rodney in 2005, the school “kind of lost track of him,” Fitzgerald said. But in late April of this year, the former student’s name snuck back onto the radar: the high school received an inquiry from an admissions officer at Yale, who asked Caesar Rodney to verify data on Wheeler’s transfer application...