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...postage stamp, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and this 17-mile bike trail. The local loop, a mere few blocks away from River Houses, shadows the banks of the Charles through Boston, Cambridge, Newton, and Watertown. River views are the highlight of this trip, presenting a brief escape from tall buildings and cityscapes. Green pastures and benches for relaxing line certain portions. However, riders beware—the path narrows significantly at parts, which means little room for passing and overcrowding on temperate spring days. Watch out for inanimate objects and other people as you pedal. With a safe exercise...
...more people are not going back to school for an MBA,” Kelly said. “How do we make sure the next 100 years are as successful if not more so than the last 100? It’s a tall order certainly...
...master of the tall order. Bruce Graham, who died March 6 at 84, designed two of the biggest, most famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story John Hancock Center was a revolution in skyscraper design. Working with Skidmore's brilliant engineer Fazlur Khan, Graham conceived a tapering tower with an exterior system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its faade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with...
Entering yesterday’s game against No. 15 University of New Hampshire (4-1), the Harvard women’s lacrosse team faced a tall order, looking to defeat its first nationally-ranked opponent of the year. The Crimson was poised to negate last weekend’s loss to Johns Hopkins and improve upon its 1-1 record to open the new season...
...part of the despised Washington establishment. "I'd like to see 435 different members in the House. Within a year, we'd fix this country," says McKelvey, who attended Tea Party meetings before being inspired by Glenn Beck's 9.12 project and deciding to mount a bid. Tall and brusque, with a silver goatee and a penchant for talking about himself in the third person, McKelvey won the unofficial straw poll with 28% of the vote after making one of the bluntest pitches of the evening: "Jim McKelvey is not going to hold his nose and vote for the lesser...