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...meeting at the posh Inn at Harvard Square yesterday afternoon, Harvard Director of Planning Kathy A. Spiegelman told a gathering of Cambridge residents how Harvard plans to cooperate with the city in the coming decade...
...that makes Nelham-Wright's somewhat solemn rendition a touching comment on the difficulties of love. With a beautiful set, designed by Hilary Hanson, the production has a look and feel that is the perfect backdrop for its high-society hijinks. The split indoor/outdoor stage brings the Lord's posh country mansion to life, though lighting difficulties detract from the reality of some outdoor scenes. The wide-open stage, while a visual delight, makes partial fades inadequate in concealing actors' exists and entrances. Despite these technical difficulties, however, The Philadelphia Story remains an enjoyable one, with a wistful feel created...
...scene outside a posh new smoke-free office building in West Los Angeles is typical. Smokers who want to light up have to go out back, near the delivery-truck entrance, and gather next to the Dumpster. Yet Susan Castor, a production assistant for a cable-TV company, has accepted her thrice-daily trips to the Dumpster with surprising equanimity. "I'd just as soon smoke out here and not have my smoke bother anyone," says Castor, who describes herself as a light smoker. "I think it should be that...
...millionaires." He promised to sell the perks of power -- the Teamster jets, the limousine, the condominium in Puerto Rico. However, Carey had personally begun accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, most of it in sunny vacation spots. Weeks after taking office in 1992, Carey bought some posh beachfront property on Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, for $340,000. The purchase, which included a $125,000 down payment, is under investigation by the Independent Review Board, the three- member federally created agency that polices the Teamsters...
...frenetic market in serial-killer collectibles. Fans are swapping trading cards of their favorite murderers. Dahmer T shirts are big sellers at heavy-metal concerts, and a comic book celebrating his exploits ( has all but sold out to buyers. Most bizarre, collectors are paying up to $20,000 in posh galleries around the U.S. for Gacy's paintings of eerie clowns; the killer used to dress up as "Pogo the Clown" to entertain neighborhood kids between his bouts of murder...