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...with a loud bang. “It was just one of those days when things kind of clicked,” he said after the final round. “I just felt really in control all day.” Finally, the team traveled down to Rhode Island for one last tournament to close out the season and Hynes’ career. “It’s kind of bittersweet to end,” Hynes said after finishing 15th overall in his final tournament. “It was great to finish on a high...
...diaper bags for McLaren, the popular British stroller brand. Designers like David Netto have found their niche giving such nursery staples as cribs and changing tables a Modernist edge. Entrepreneurs are getting in on the action too. P'kolino founders Antonio Turco-Rivas and J.B. Schneider have hired Rhode Island School of Design students to help them conceptualize practical but fun play-space furnishings for the home...
...first champion, RICHARD HATCH, 45, won $1 million on prime-time TV and failed to declare it on his tax return. In fact, Hatch reported a negative income for the year and filed for $4,483 in refunds. A jury convicted him of tax evasion, and last Tuesday a Rhode Island judge sentenced him to 51 months in prison. "It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied," said the judge, adding that Hatch also tried to "manipulate other people." In Hatch's defense, that was once a winning strategy...
...Louisiana, the shrinkage is most dramatic. The state has lost 1 million acres of coast--11/2 times the area of Rhode Island--since 1930, nearly half of that vanished land lying between New Orleans and the Gulf. The city proper is estimated to be sinking 3 ft. per century. And while the whole world is struggling with rising sea levels, New Orleans and its environs hurt more than most. The State of Louisiana is estimated to be losing land at the alarming rate of about two acres every hour...
...television show “Family Guy,” will be the Class Day speaker this June, according to a senior close to the committee. The Class Committee returns a comedian to the podium for the fifth time in seven years. MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, which is also the setting of his cartoon show. The FOX network cancelled “Family Guy” in 2002, saying that the show had failed to garner consistently high ratings. But after the show surged in popularity on the Cartoon Network...