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Grafton Street is located on Mass Ave. next to Bob Slate, a family-owned and operated stationery store and Harvard Square stalwart...
...trend has been fueled by a handful of small niche designers, most of which barely existed five years ago and all claiming fans among the female cast members of Friends. These companies are turning impressive profits despite the existing competition of such stalwart manufacturers as the Gap, Old Navy and Fruit of the Loom. Three Dots, for example, which was launched in 1995 and boasts a "cotton as soft as cashmere," is projecting sales this year of $24 million, up from $16 million in 1999. Its success is echoed by brands such as Juicy Couture, Michael Stars, James Perse...
Trouble started brewing for Blair last year when he sought to impose his own mayoral candidate over the choice of his party's membership - and he appears to have lost badly. When "Red" Ken Livingstone, a stalwart of the "loony left" that Blair vanquished in his rise to leadership of the Labor party, showed interest in the job, the prime minister was having none of it. Although the iconoclastic Livingstone, a longtime favorite of Londoners since the mid-?80s, when he headed the Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution...
...other students--including Amy C. Offner '01, a Progressive Student Labor Movement stalwart, and Lowell House resident--also aggressively quizzed Rudenstine on labor conditions. He continued to refer to the committee, emphasizing that the University has a process for evaluating possible changes...
...what might have been a peaceful scamper along the dew-covered Yard transformed into a horrific scramble through a cacophony of cheers, moans and wails. To the urban wildlife so accustomed to the sunrise serenade of songbirds, these staccato bursts of screaming would have sent the even the most stalwart of squirrels scurrying...