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It’s not that I miss Abercrombie & Fitch. Other than the freshman year purchase of a single denim miniskirt designed to inspire regret in an out-of-town ex-boyfriend, I never set foot in the place...
...crestfallen. And pissed as hell. Recall that this is the fourth bank (next to Fleet, Cambridge Trust, and Cambridge Savings) to settle down within a 100-yard radius of Out-of-Town News. A fifth, Sovereign Bank, is “Coming Soon.” This wouldn’t be so lamentable were it an isolated incident. But, as we well know, it’s part of a much more pernicious and destructive pattern: the de-Harvardization of Harvard Square...
...out-of-town crowd and proximity to Massachusetts placed Bush’s Bay State-bashing in an unusually awkward context, although the president’s audience hardly seemed to mind...
...country. Houck continues to provide counsel to recovering addicts who telephone from around the world. He still appears at meetings held within driving distance of his home in Towson, Md., and shares the inspirational story of his recovery and the early days of the Oxford Group with out-of-town gatherings via teleconferencing...
...people registered to play pétanque competitively are taking things a little too seriously. An annual Montpellier tournament scheduled for last month was canceled when too many visiting teams bowed out after receiving threats from hometown fans. "Bouligans" have been known to warn out-of-town rivals to lose deliberately - or else. "That, and unsportsman-like behavior by some fans during play, got to be too much," laments Philippe Gaffet, secretary general of the Paris section of the French Pétanque and Provençal Game Federation, the sport's governing body. "So the city decided to shut...