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Fahmy's jewelry catches the spirit of Arab traditions. The pieces in what she calls her culture line, the heart of her work since she began designing nearly 40 years ago, are inspired by everything from the hammered silver of peasant wedding jewelry and the repetitive patterns of Islamic architecture to symbols of Arab folklore such as wolf fangs and chili peppers. Trademark touches include blending gold and silver together for an effect that echoes the inlaid brassware found in Middle Eastern bazaars, and echoing the calligraphy used for Koranic verses and Arabic poetry. "Everything I see around...
...where, along with the Hawks from Roger Williams, the two schools easily showed themselves to be the class of the field. Boston College finished the gold round robin with an 11-12 record, while Tufts took fourth overall with a 10-13 record. Connecticut College finished the silver round robin at 12-11 to claim fifth overall, with MIT (11-12), Yale (7-16), and Brown (4-19) claiming the sixth, seventh, and eighth positions, respectively. “Many of the teams did not have all of their members compete here this weekend,” Charles said...
...Park in Cambridge to Paul Revere Park in Charlestown, a highway project identified by the state as eligible for federal funding. The press release also said that $319 million in funds will go toward the Regional Transit Authorities and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for projects like Green and Silver Line enhancements, station repairs, and facility upgrades. Local projects that are awaiting a decision on federal funds include the construction of a new elevator in the Harvard T station, which would cost $7.7 million, and a 30,000 sq. ft. skate park in East Cambridge with a price...
...same time, Dodd is looking increasingly vulnerable. The silver-haired father of two young girls is facing his toughest re-election fight ever, and he doesn't even have an opponent yet. (CNBC pundit Larry Kudlow and former GOP Representative Rob Simmons have both expressed interest in running.) In a January Quinnipiac poll, 51% of Connecticut voters said they would not vote for Dodd in 2010. "It's the subject matter - people are watching their tax dollars go into institutions and they wonder when it's going to get better and they wonder where it's going," Dodd says...
...list was appropriately wacky. "The craziest things we've found recently," Obie said, "are a bust of Julius Caesar, an extensive garden-gnome collection, a $300,000 Mickey Mouse drawing, bejeweled ink pens, several of which cost more than $100,000, $4 million worth of custom tailored clothes, a silver set allegedly belonging to Paul Revere, and two purple Jaguars with hand-painted leopard-skin roofs." It should be added that Ruth Madoff once gave her husband a $14,000 cigar humidor...