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Instead, the administration offered thecultural center the opportunity to rent a buildingthe University had an option to lease, 16-18 EliotSt. That building, which then bordered rail yardsused by the T, was in a bad area and in need of apaint job. Now it houses four brand-newrestaurants...
...Pepperdine University president David Davenport, father of a fourth-grader who clocks two hours of homework a night, sees a chain reaction: "The pressure to get into highly selective colleges and universities backs up into high school advanced-placement courses, which backs up to elementary schools." Anxious parents can rail about what teachers do in the classroom, but homework is still one area where parents can directly improve their child's chances...
...things I review, and then there are things that I really like to use. Here's a short list of stuff I found and loved this year. At the top of my chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront of style: the sleek, flat headphones...
Bechtel grew up on rugged construction sites where his father Warren, who started the company, punched rail lines and highways through the California wilderness. To the end of his long life--he died in 1989, six months short of his 89th birthday--Steve Bechtel enjoyed prowling around job sites, but he neither looked nor sounded like a construction boss. In his prime, in the 1950s, he was trim, well tailored and relatively soft voiced, with the ingratiating manner of a salesman...
...walked into CPD headquarters located at 5 Western Ave. and told the officer at the front desk that he wanted to kill himself by throwing himself on the third rail of a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority track. The man, identified as an escaped patient from McLean Hospital who had three outstanding warrants for his arrest, was booked and transported back to the hospital by ambulance...