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Those of us who still live in a cave use the FAS Webmail application to check our e-mail may have noticed that we now have the option to try a brand spanking new interface. This "FAS Beta" is, we will admit, slightly spiffier and simpler, but apparently, its only purpose is to improve security while FAS IT performs a great e-mail migration over the next several months...
Allen unabashedly loved the city in its grimy, dangerous years; his 1979 Manhattan opened with fireworks over Central Park, to the strains of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. That's when the script for Whatever Works first took shape. Today the city is spiffier, and Boris is mired in '70s disgust. But Allen isn't; he's a tour guide to local attractions, from the Statue of Liberty to Madame Tussauds on the Disneyfied 42nd Street. It's a vision of New York City as the welcomer and transformer of all lost souls, possibly including Boris the grouse...
There’s that new-paint smell and some spiffier bathrooms, but the improvements to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) are mostly too subtle to impress students, according to gym-goers interviewed yesterday. After the MAC closed for improvements last March, athletes migrated to Hemenway Gymnasium. Students said working out at the TV-outfitted, air-conditioned law school gym fed high expectations for the MAC’s re-opening Tuesday. “I thought they were going to do something with it like add another floor or something crazy like that,” said Shane...
...long he starts to win. And by the time he's 23, he's a city councilman in Cleveland. At 31, he's the country's youngest big city mayor. All this success, you figure, would make his skin glow a little, his suits a bit spiffier, his speeches a little punchier. But what if he was so damn earnest that it didn't? What if at 60 he still looked and sounded like Dennis Kucinich...
...extracurriculars or his looks. No, it was for his luggage. Instead of the standard backpack, Good prefers to transport his books in the unconventional rolling suitcase. Now, almost two years later, Good still sports luggage, but he upgraded his roller bag to something “a little spiffier.” He now uses a TravelPro with replaceable roller blade wheels...