Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Blue Room is reopening. The room holds several of the Museum's most noteworthy 19th-century acquisitions, including Manet, Delacroix, and Courbet, as well as letters and photographs of such notables as Emerson, the Jameses, Oliver Wendell Holmes and George Santayana. Tues. to Sun. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. $10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 college students, free for those under...
...Public Library's Central Branch, offers a chance to see a selection of the library's recent acquisitions of rare and fine press books, manuscripts and broadsides, as well as artists' books. Mon. through Thurs., 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. 1 to 5 p.m. Central Library, Copley Square. 536-5400. FREE...
...have thought Bill Gates has a memory problem? In the two hours of Gates's 20-hour video deposition shown in court Monday, the Microsoft chairman appears unable to recall anything about critical e-mail messages he sent to subordinates concerning Apple, Sun and other competitors. Antitrust prosecutors used the tapes to prep the court for Wednesday's appearance by Apple exec Avadis Tevanian, hoping that Gates's performance will cast a shadow over his corporation's motives: "A lot of this trial comes down to the perception of whether or not a monopoly played within the rules and used...
...watch unusually large numbers of people lounging in the Yard, lapping up the "last" of the sun's rays, I realize their perception is beginning to look more and more accurate. When I ignorantly asked what all the rush was, my friend cynically told me that never had it been this warm so late in October. And my sister at home is just now opting for the T-shirt to wear with her shorts and sandals, as opposed to the tank...
...Harvard obviously considers these things essential to easing the transition into "college life." Unfortunately, there was no mention of what will probably be my biggest shock of all: the weather. My fellow Californians and empathetic Floridians now joke about actually wearing hats for a functional purpose. But when the sun starts setting at 4 p.m., the wind begins cutting through our clothes and the walk to the dining hall becomes a trek, we won't have a soul on campus to turn...