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...iThe key is not only to be good looking but have lots of energy and be cool.i This description from Randy J. Gomes i02 should come as no surprise to the typical Abercrombie patron. Letis face it, the workers at Abercrombie are hot. This is because the brand name aspires to hire a unique brand of worker: one who sells their clothes with their classically preppy good looks. iThey donit hire just based on looks, but do tell us to give applications to pretty people,i Gomes admits. Scot D. Hopps i01, was one such pretty person recruited...
Stuart Rosenberg, a first-year student at KSG and a long-time patron of the Bow and Arrow Pub, gave the call to arms that resulted an all-day event at the Harvard Square bar yesterday. Several KSG students held a petition drive, hoping to keep the bar in the Square...
...bank said 'I don't support drug habits,' as she walked by." Shorey was none too pleased, and when the woman made a point of telling a recent purchaser of Spare Change that Shorey was on drugs, he got in her face. The police came, but Shorey's patron defended him. "Sometimes you have to be aggressive," he says...
...trend in politics is to admit serious wrongs years later. And while this certainly is better than the Clinton-two-step, it still doesn't erase wrongs. McCain might make a good president, but because his policies work, not because he's some patron saint. Suggesting he's anything other than a typical politician is well, bananas. And I'm not referring...
...many people, retirement acts like a patron. "When you think about the history of art, patrons gave people time and resources to spend on efforts other than making ends meet," says Dr. Gene D. Cohen, author of the forthcoming The Creative Age. That may be one reason folk art tends to be dominated by late bloomers. "Most self-taught artists in America don't have advanced degrees, so they have been part of the work force all their lives," says Lee Kogan, director of New York's Folk Art Institute. "It doesn't mean their talent wasn't there earlier...