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...could host conventions and special events, in addition to the mediocre football team. With Boston's rich tradition and history and the plethora of colleges, universities, hospitals and research centers, the city is a natural location for conventions and events of all types. Boston's convention facilities, however, currently rank only 41st in the country...
...major tourist city, Boston ranks surprisingly low in convention space. According to the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, Boston's convention facilities now rate 41st in the nation. And that rank is falling as other cities expand their meeting areas...
...remains to be discovered. The basic facts, and Inman's responses, have long been a matter of public record. In an interview with TIME, Inman stressed his extreme reluctance to take the job in the first place -- which helps explain his hypersensitivity to criticism that someone avid for Cabinet rank might shrug off. He says he became so tense and grouchy in intelligence work that it took the first 10 of his 12 years in private life for him to relax. His wife Nancy had begun to make a career for herself as a photographer and dreaded returning to Washington...
Though Yeltsin tried to keep him on, another top free-marketeer, Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov, resigned, saying he would not serve in a government that also retained the free-spending central-bank chief Viktor Gerashchenko. Three other reform ministers lost the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. Only one new economic thinker remained in the Cabinet: Anatoli Chubais, who heads the program that is successfully privatizing small businesses. "I see no tragedy in some people leaving the government," sniffed Chernomyrdin. "It is a natural process...
Were Harvard to formally participate in the program, there would be a campus representative and a committee to review applications and to rank students. Because the college has not chosen this formal affiliation, students who apply will do so on an individual basis and will not be ranked...