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...said that in addition to sales tax generated for the state by students, staff and faculty brought into the city, Harvard and other local colleges have helped make Boston a high-tech center by offering employers top-notch graduates and academics...
...features some of the funnier lines of the year, does not rate as highly as many of the performances. Prizzi's Honor is one of the best films of 1985, but this is only because there haven't been many good movies released this year. The acting is top-notch, despite some flawed Italian accents, but the movie is too long and too complicated for it to be considered a great...
...scored big in 1983. The English translation of his The Name of the Rose appeared in the United States and was a phenomenal success. A mystery novel set in a 14th century Italian abbey, it entertainingly combined detailed scholarship and philosophic inquiry with the pace and plot of a top-notch potboiler. A book that succeeded on many levels. The Name of the Rose earned itself a rightful place on widely disparate shelves, from the pulp-novel racks at the A & P to the syllabus for Professor David Herlihy's History 31, Medieval Europe...
...Ordering drinks or even entering a drinking establishment in the Square if you're under 20 makes one about as popular as Caspar Weinberger at Harvard. Though it varies from bar to bar, a teenager acquiring a drink without two birth certificates and his dad's passport needs a top-notch bullshitting ability to reach his desired goal. Bars have been especially tough recently after the alcohol commission checked up on several Square vendors and discovered-oh, my God!-rampant teenage consumption of alcohol. The currently hard-and-fast 20-over-only rule may be easing, however, as summer wears...
This year, the oarswoman, who is not only a top-notch collegiate rower but also a legitimate contender for the national lightweight team, moved into the bow of the Radcliffe heavies and teamed with Pugh to direct one of the squad's finest seasons ever...