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...Others had different aims in mind. Duncan Blinkhorn, a 47-year-old charity worker pulling a solar-powered sound system on the back of his bicycle, came to warn G-20 leaders that "climate change [is] approaching a possible tipping point." Seventeen-year-old Max Warwick, decked out in Doc Marten boots and drainpipe jeans and holding an English flag emblazoned with "Gordon Is a Moron," just wanted his government "to do stuff for working-class families," he said, puffing on a neatly rolled cigarette. With tongue in cheek, Delores Forothers - think about it - was marching "to support all these...
...years, you wrote and edited for Seventeen magazine. How has your relationship to young women shaped this memoir? Being a teenage girl is one of the most profound times in a female's life. And I think in some ways it is a more transformational time than male puberty. That's why I love the Twilight series. It's all about a girl discovering her immense power of a being a woman. I have always been fascinated by the issues that women grapple with. And I think it's a very interesting time to be a woman, especially in this...
...duties with its counterparts from MIT for the regatta and ended the weekend thirteen points ahead of Tufts in the three division racing format.Skipper Palmer and senior crew Lauren Brants competed in the A division for the Crimson, finishing second in the most competitive division. They started off their seventeen races of the weekend well, with two early victories and three second place showings in their first ten contests, and also finished strong, placing in the top five in all but one of their last six races.“There was a pretty steady wind out on the river...
...redisplayed [permanently].”As a state-of-the-art institution, the Straus Center’s conservation efforts have reached beyond this campus’ grounds. Along with pieces of art from Harvard’s own collection, the Straus Center has worked on preserving seventeen paintings from Piet Mondrian’s Transatlantic series, an altarpiece created by Bartholomäus Bruyn during the 15th century brought in from Germany, and the enormous wall murals that decorate the Boston Public Library by John Singer Sargeant. Lie claims that the conservation of the Sargeant murals has been...
...nonstop - and not just at the top of the food chain. Although teetering giants like Citigroup and Bank of America grab the headlines, at the end of last year 252 institutions were on the problem list of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), up from 171 three months earlier. Seventeen banks have failed so far in 2009; expect hundreds more over the next few years. (See the top 10 financial collapses...