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...character, Charlotte, is pretty freakin’ sweet. Julie basically called her out, finding a bunch of fake credit cards and IDs in Charlotte’s purse. And then, because of her desire to ascend from her newfound poverty, Julie agreed to help her scam Newport! This is the stuff “The OC” should be about—schemes and stalkers. I mean, after seeing Marissa shoot Ryan’s brother and Kirsten nearly die in a car crash at the end of last season, who really gives a crap about...
Former Harvard lecturer in sociology Barrington Moore, Jr., whose study of power structures—and particularly totalitarianism—helped shape the field for decades to follow, died on Sunday, Oct. 16, at his home in Cambridge. He was 92. Moore, who was born and raised in Newport, R.I., first started working at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—informally known as the Russian Research Center—in 1948. He officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social...
...where he was awarded master’s and doctorate degrees.El-Erian worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nearly 15 years before leading the emerging markets research outfit at investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. In 1999, he moved to PIMCO, a leading bond manager in Newport Beach, Calif. with a strong emerging markets business.During the Brazilian financial crisis of 2002, El-Erian bucked conventional wisdom in contending that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO?...
...well as functional concerns. The serving areas were entirely redesigned in the style of the Houses—Mather’s retains the feel of modern architecture while Dunster’s was designed to “look like someone’s mansion down in Newport, R.I.,” Snyder said...
When Dylan went electric, the folkies reacted as if they had been electrocuted. In the documentary, Seeger still seethes at the memory of Dylan's set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. "I said, 'Goddammit, it's terrible,'" he recalls. "'If I had an ax, I'd chop the mike cable right now.'" Some old fans felt the same. In those days the second half of a Dylan concert, when he worked in front of a small band (later known as the Band), was frequently punctuated by audience cries of "Traitor!" and "Judas...