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...their status as four-year Houses. One of today’s key Allston players was one of those “unusual” initial male immigrants to the Quad—Dean Gross. “In the early years, people chose the Quad because it was quiet,” he says. “I liked that at the end of the day, I walked home to a residential neighborhood...
...www.limoliner.com) via a blueprint; by seating 28 passengers instead of the standard 55, LimoLiner guarantees roominess. Once you’re on board, pass the time with two live TV channels broadcasting business and news, a DVD movie, and five audio channels. There’s also a designated quiet zone where no cell phones are allowed...
...poverty in which she asks, "What have I done to deserve such a life/ Who have I offended in heaven?", she begins with a matter-of-fact resignation familiar to anyone who has spent time in Africa, then unleashes a spellbinding mix of urgent chants, mournful cadenzas and more quiet testimony. She often sings as the outsider, a role she has played for most of her life. A diplomat's daughter, Traoré spent chunks of her childhood in Algeria, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. As a musician, she's had to fight for respect, since she was not born into...
...hear me talk. I don't like that," says Mary Dowell, her voice reverberating as she walks through the world's largest manufacturing building. The quiet is not good. The 98-acre factory at Boeing's Everett, Wash., facility turns out only three large planes a month, compared with a monthly high of 16 just four years ago. Dowell, a 25-year Boeing veteran whose job it is to reshape the way the company builds its flagship plane, the 777, knows Boeing needs to revive the constant rat-a-tat-tat of riveting. "We've been humbled in the past...
...missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year's presidential walk-up, China has been strangely quiet, even though some of Chen's policies, such as a push for a new constitution, arouse suspicions that he is laying the groundwork for independence...