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...into lifelong customers. But Tim Bull, Saga's group marketing director, says mature consumers are just as eager to buy as youngsters, though they are savvier and more discerning. They are also richer - much richer. "They control 80% of the nation's wealth and they're very happy to spend it," says Fiona Hought, managing director of Millennium, a British ad agency that specializes in selling to oldsters...
What began as a routine Cambridge School Committee meeting last night developed into a battle over whether the district should give schools more money to spend on broadly defined improvement measures. A motion put forward by rookie committee members Patricia M. Nolan ’80 and Luc Schuster recommended that Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn reallocate approximately $1.5 million of the district’s 2007-2008 budget to the school improvement funds of Cambridge’s 13 public schools. “This is crazy, it’s like ‘Groundhog...
...able to put our jersey on again and represent USA is always a thrill,” she said. “I’m very much looking forward to being a part of this team and seeing my teammates again. Coming off an Olympic year, where you spend every day and every night with them, you miss them.” One other interesting component of the process is that current Harvard rivals on the collegiate scene will become the national team compatriots of its standouts shortly. Chu and Cahow are two of 10 current collegians...
...wash over is the fact that, for some women, sex may not be such a big deal. Sure, we are all sexual beings, but there is no reason to aspire to the typical male’s degree of sexual desire—most women don’t spend that much time thinking about sex. That fact is not a reflection of some societal oppression. If anything, it’s liberating...
Judging from the syllabus and last week’s meeting, a woman thinking of taking FemSex would do better to spend her time and $15 course fee elsewhere. For instance, she might work on finding a boyfriend who wishes to bring her sexual pleasure in “female terms”—that shouldn’t be too hard, given how progressive most modern Harvard men are. Alternatively, visiting a psychiatrist to try to pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street...