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After moving to Boston in June, Goldhagen originally wanted to set up shop on Newbury Street, but found that the environment clashed with her vision of a subtle, modest refinement. “It was just all so snobby,” she said. “Every store has the word vintage in it. There’s no character to anything.” Instead, she found atmosphere around Harvard more appropriate for Vintage Revenge. “There’s a lot of energy and a lot of people milling around,” she said...
Newly elected Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent, Jeffrey M. Young, unveiled a proposed timeline for remedying the “middle school issue” at last night’s school committee meeting—a move aimed at finalizing a set of concrete action plans for the initiative by April...
After a five-month process of collecting data and engaging members of the community, Young plans to present the committee with a set of recommendations at a meeting in February...
...catalyst is MGM-Mirage's much anticipated CityCenter, an $8.5 billion complex of shops, condos and boutique hotels that is set to open in December. Designed by a klatch of world-renowned architects and anchored by a 4,000-room hotel casino, the new resort is hiring 12,000 people in what Michael Peltyn, CityCenter's vice president of human resources, describes as the "single biggest hiring opportunity in the history of the U.S." It sort of needs to be, given that the unemployment rate in Nevada is a formidable 13.2%. The company has already offered 4,000 of those...
Micheletti, who has set stern curfews and closed Honduras' airports and borders since Zelaya's reappearance, is still having none of it. He charges instead that Zelaya's return is designed simply to "put up obstacles" to the Nov. 29 presidential balloting, whose results the U.S. has threatened not to recognize if Zelaya is not restored to office by then. Micheletti - citing Zelaya's disregard for a Supreme Court order not to hold a constitutional-reform referendum this year that the coup leaders say provoked his removal by armed soldiers - instead called on Brazil to "respect the judicial order handed...