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...cheeked schoolgirl attending a prestigious private academy in Kobe. Though she had run away before, Tokuda left home for good last December after her father reportedly blew up over her newly pierced ears. Her 21-year-old boyfriend found the 16-year-old Tokuda strangled late October in the one-room Osaka apartment they shared. It turned out Tokuda had been seduced by the mean streets of Osaka. Journalists found ads for a bar, where patrons paid to fondle girls, featuring Tokuda in a slinky beige teddy. Earlier this month, a 17-year-old drifter was charged with murdering...
...tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzerí and cafés. Warehouses have become fashionable nightclubs. Neoclassical buildings with gateways on to verdant courtyards have been converted to stylish galleries and quaint tavernas. That uneasy coexistence between...
HMCE and HMC—which oversees government simulation programs for high school students, Harvard Model Senate for first-years and the Harvard Political Education Program—will in turn move from their 318-square-foot, two-room office in Thayer to a new location, possibly a smaller one-room vacant office in the basement of Holworthy...
...fact: Living in a one-room apartment in Manhattan does not afford one a great deal of storage space...
...expected to win top billing at the nation's largest securities firm when current CEO David Komansky retires in three years. That would make O'Neal, 49, the first black CEO of a major Wall Street brokerage house. Reared on a farm in Wedowee, Ala., O'Neal attended a one-room schoolhouse and worked the late shift at a General Motors plant in Georgia before landing at Harvard Business School. He joined Merrill as an investment banker in 1986 and later served as CFO and brokerage chief...