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...This whole thing is short-lived,” says Jim Hutchigs, who works at Anthony’s Pier 4, a small store that advertises live Maine lobsters for tourists next to the American Airlines Terminal B security gate. He gestures to the airline employees in front of the security gate. “How long is this going to last...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Logan Reopens, Security Tightened | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Massport opened the Exchange Center on the Boston Fish Pier and outfitted the space with cots and food to help passengers like Muller, who were unable to find accomodations in the city’s overbooked hotels for the night...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Daniela J. Lamas, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Two Hijacked Planes Took Off From Logan | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

...first guests to arrive at Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island's Grand Hotel in 1887 were met at the pier by horse-drawn carriages. When they ventured forth from the hotel, it was by horse or buggy or bike. And so it is today, as a ban on automobiles enacted a century ago remains in force. Like those early travelers, today's Grand guests sit in big, wooden rockers on what, at 660 ft., is still the world's longest hotel porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't They Grand! | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...improves an economy's competitiveness. Trade does so because it stimulates local suppliers to match the quality and variety of imported goods. Tourism does so because returning travelers demand the goods and services they have seen in foreign countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise Of Tourism | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...Estabrook ’02 and director Marcus Stern is, perhaps, the most elaborately designed and beautifully executed of any within recent memory. Unlike many student endeavors on the Mainstage, they make the space work for the production, rather than against it. From the opening montage on the pier to the apartment raising from the depths to the apparition of the seemingly-limitless office space, the stylized realism of the design concept challenges the technical abilities of students just as far as they can be successfully pushed. The transition and conflation of huge headshots of Billy and Dion...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Achieve Greatness | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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