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...Mariah Carey began her performance before the packed concert hall, “all the girls in the upper balcony just started shrieking,” Faust said. “I looked at Amy [Gutmann] and said, ‘Good grief, this is not how we usually spend our time...
...benefits to starting out with a six-figure plus bonus salary (or wealthy parents) make themselves almost immediately apparent. Many students who already have banking jobs are blasé about their housing prospects, while their peers are already obsessively poring over Craigslist and calculating the least they can possibly spend on rent and still live in coveted metropolitan areas like New York City. “To be honest, I’m not too familiar with how much living in New York would cost,” says Gupta. She knows she’ll be making enough...
...consistency. He was spectacular at times, but he also went through long stretches during that first season in which the chances were there but the goals never seemed to be. As a sophomore, his hopes of a breakout season were frustrated by a leg injury that forced him to spend a significant amount of time on the bench...
...Hypocritical enviro-advocates abound these days, constantly reminding us to make sacrifices in the interest of the earth while forgoing few comforts themselves. Green activist and actor John Travolta likes to spend his free time toying around in one of his five private planes, including a commercial Boeing 707, racking up 800 tons of carbon emissions in the last year. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has managed to promote his idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating a hydrogen-fueled Hummer—a car that gets a whopping 10-15 miles per gallon—while crisscrossing the country...
...While we were there it was usually only a two-hour window of business,” Welch said. “The same people came all at once during lunch, and no one in the morning or night.” Welch said he had to spend more than three months renovating the equipment he had inherited from Campo de Fiori. The restaurant started in the kitchen of a catering business in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood and is noted for its “daily special” pizza, such as a Bartlett pear and spinach...