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...after the city won home rule, he became its first elected mayor in more than 100 years. He steered the capital through some of the nation's worst urban riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., organized a new municipal bureaucracy and gave the city a budget surplus...
...Harvard, it was all about Dave Matthews Band. And that fit pretty well. Bill Clinton was president, Saddam was a joke and Anthrax was a metal band. Afghanistan was a place where, in commercials, shepherds were using the Internet to improve business. The government was running an unheard-of surplus, and we were too well-off and peaceful to know what to do with ourselves. And Dave was there, with his stringy, barefoot exhortations to “eat, drink, and be merry” and to make the most of our “One Sweet World...
Hooded cropped parkas and military coats offer, according to Hartman, a more sophisticated alternative to Patagonia fleeces. These can be found at either Spiewak.com or any army surplus store...
Neill has creative ideas for recycling as well: she encourages her clients to unload surplus clothing at consignment stores and to organize clothing swaps with her friends. They have dinner at someone’s house and bring clothes they are sick of. It’s a way to get rid of clothing “without having the remorse of throwing...
...associations such as Caregroup—an umbrella organization for several hospitals, including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center—Children’s Hospital is fiscally secure. After going through six years of financial turmoil, the hospital has righted itself and is even pulling in a slight surplus, Davis said...