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...search for more on-campus graduate housing, the Harvard Planning and Allston Initiative (HPAI) has decided to plunk down its latest project on Grant and Cowperthwaite streets. A building that will house more than 300 graduate students and faculty, the new construction will bring Harvard closer to its ultimate goal of housing 50 percent of graduate students on campus by 2011. With an underground garage and an attractive design the grad center is a much better use of the space than the parking lot that is currently there. Plus, with more over-21 year-olds nearby, Louie?...
...husband Gary, 56, of Oakdale, on New York's Long Island, wondered what they still had in common. She had a corporate career in banking; he owned a roofing business. "We were going in different directions," she says. Then, five years ago, Lynn encouraged her husband to plunk down $18,000 on a Harley-Davidson Road King Classic. Without hesitation, Lynn jumped on the back. After a while, she opted for her own machine...
...advised very strongly against this, in part because of what I’d seen [at Harvard],” Gray says, “in part because I thought to bring a women’s college to New Haven, plunk it down, and make it Yale’s sister would be to recreate conditions of second-class citizenship, rather than to promote the idea of genuine integration...
...meantime, track and tote operators say they are closing any potential security gaps, scouring their records for previous big payoffs and praying they don't find any more funny business as they try to assure U.S. horse bettors--not exactly a trusting lot--that the $14.5 billion they plunk down every year isn't being taken for an electronic ride...
...archers may face the toughest regimen of all. Archers regularly go on forced moonlit marches. At past sessions, they have handled snakes, practiced nighttime combat-style beach landings and run up mountains while carrying boats. Physically demanding, the weird regime also hones the mental toughness archers need to consistently plunk arrows into a bull's-eye 70 m away. But a few athletes are fighting back, criticizing such workouts as not worth the risk. Midway through the August training camp, which was meant to prepare athletes for the Archery World Championship held two weeks ago in Beijing, four male archers...