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...superrich built themselves palaces on New York City's Fifth and Park avenues, which were much satirized. But the red-hot site of Gilded Age extravagance was Newport, Rhode Island, where the very rich congregated in the summer. Here, in what they called with false modesty their "cottages," they engaged in rituals of consumption and display that were so extreme, competitive and self-referential that they eclipsed anything done in private American building before or since. Newport confirms the piercing insight of Henry Adams, lamenting the crassness of his time: "The American wasted more money more recklessly than anyone ever...
...received some bad news over the phone on April 30, 1991. Then a high school senior in Phoenix, Arizona, Stern had committed to Brown University not only because it is part of the Ivy League but also because of its reputation in women's gymnastics. The call from Providence, Rhode Island, though, was to inform her that Brown's athletic department was eliminating four sports, among them women's gymnastics, in a budget cutback. "I was devastated," recalls Stern. "I wanted the best academics and the best athletics. Brown's team had won the Ivys the year before...
Harvard will travel to Rhode Island tomorrow for a double-header against Providence. Vermont 0 Harvard...
Even now with the snow melted, the Crimson must still travel to Rhode Island or even the Cape in order to find playable courses...
...ECAC team (comprised of players from ECAC Division I, as well as Division II/III all-stars from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont) took a 3-1 lead at the end of the first period and never trailed in the contest, although the score was tied 4-4, 5-5, 7-7 and 8-8 before J.C. Ruid (F, Univ. of Vermont) finally tallied what turned out to the game-winner at 15:49 in the third period to lift the home team to victory...