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...first Miami-Boston game. Still more were there just because the Celtics, at worst, won’t be terrible, and, at best, might make a playoff run reminiscent of happier days in the old Garden.I remained in line for more than three hours, incredulous at the slow-moving line and the fans that still had such faith in a perennial loser. Finally, I asked the man in front of me the question I’d been dying to ask: when have Celtics tickets been in such high demand?He was a grizzled working-class guy, worried about having...
...needs to be fixed in the next round of climate negotiations. But there was little said in New York Monday to indicate that a solution would be found soon. Developing countries insist with much justification that they can't be expected to constrain their growing economies to slow carbon emissions, but it's difficult to see how citizens in developed countries - and not just in the SUV-loving United States - will accept strict limits while their economic competitors in India and China are allowed free rein. Nor is there much time to figure it out. "We only have two years...
...issues that this campus faces reluctantly, if not purposefully avoids. Why did 100 black students—many who lived in the Quad—appear so foreign to the vigilant Quadlings that day? One conventional answer is self-segregation: Black students stick to their own, so others are slow to recognize them. The blame shifts—inappropriately—to the campus’s minority groups...
...impressive. Seemingly overnight she went from full-time mom?a title she accepted after years of working at Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang and Harper's Bazaar?to woman on the fast track to becoming a mega-brand. When she launched her eponymous company in 2004, Burch eschewed the traditional slow-growth route and dove right in with a complete product range of clothes and accessories, even candles. If Burch's luxe '60s- and '70s-inspired designs are a manifestation of her high-fashion pedigree, the price tags are anything but. "I really wanted to fill a missing niche that...
...When I came into that game I was just all adrenaline,” O’Hagan says. “At the end, I didn’t slow down enough and I was flying by the seat of my pants. I was just out there almost being reckless in some sense and wasn’t patient enough last year, and that’s where I got into a lot of trouble...