Word: seventeen
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...regardless of how the University chooses to spend its gains this year, Harvard’s in-house management team deserves thanks for outperforming the median university return by over seventeen percent. No increase in endowment payouts would be possible without their expert management...
...call it the bye-bye-to-Britney look," says Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley, referring to the scantily clad pop princess Britney Spears. In its back-to-school issue, the magazine showcased (gasp!) high-waisted jeans, kilts and tweed blazers. Seventeen advised readers to opt for below-the-knee skirts and higher-waisted pants. The look is in full force in stores, with Old Navy pushing Argyle tube tops and ballet flats and H&M stocked with modest blouses that Paris Hilton wouldn't be caught dead in. Even perennially preppy retailers like J. Crew are taking...
...preppier, more conservative apparel. No, teens are not gathering to burn their low-rider jeans, but waistlines are inching back up, and Argyle sweaters and plaid skirts abound. "I'm not saying these girls want to wear turtlenecks and high-waisted pants," says Gina Kelly, fashion director of Seventeen. "They just don't want to look cheesy...
...even look forward to their arrival. Cincinnati, Ohio, for example, is planning cicada festivals, parties and even meals. Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert, is testing out a new recipe this year, cicada chowder. But entomologist John Cooley, who studies cicadas at the University of Connecticut, won't touch it. "Seventeen years underground just to end up as someone's dinner?" he says. "They're too marvelous to waste...
...summer of 2003 while we were in the middle of contract negotiations the University informed the union that they meant to layoff all seventeen remaining union guards. I asked for the help of Progressive Student Labor Movement and an e-mail campaign was mounted along with a public demonstration in the front of Holyoke Center. Those actions caused the University to reconsider their position. The Union conducted impact bargaining concurrently with the main contract negotiations. In the end, we settled the main contract and the university presented to the union a proposal for severance packages, also we were able...