Word: pubs
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...entry into the genre, which may have netted 40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It has certainly got the goods: a daring robbery, a terrified family, a collection of pub names that a novelist couldn't improve upon and, if the many early breaks in the case continue, a quick win for the police...
...business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
...income students and broadened the College’s applicant pool. Finally, it was a grant from the President’s office this past fall that will finally begin to address the problems facing social space in undergraduate life—it earmarked millions of dollars for a pub in Loker Commons, a café in Lamont, and a plethora of student group space in the Hilles Building...
...fully commensurate with their quality or the quality of the Harvard faculty.” In action as well as in word, Summers has worked to improve the undergraduate experience in particular. His office’s six million dollar grant is paying for Hilles renovations, the new Loker Pub, and the Lamont Café. His initiative to increase international opportunities at Harvard has been welcomed by students. And his decision to make Harvard’s financial aid the most generous in the world has made Harvard a leader in promoting educational equality. It is indisputable that Summers listened...
...likely will be limited to small, trifling public relations pitches. We believe the considerable amount of resources being put towards the center would be better allocated addressing the social environment for all Harvard students, including spending more money on Harvard-endorsed parties and programming for the planned campus pub. Harvard’s women would be better served by democratizing a social scene dominated by all-male institutions than by meeting rooms. Only when women do not have to stand outside a final club mansion in a short skirt and heels, hoping to be judged “hot?...