Word: topeka
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...population has the annual household income of $200,000 that qualifies them as luxury shoppers. You could go broke catering to that lot. "The preponderance of luxury goods is not sold to that population," says Bills of RPA. "The majority are licensed goods sold in Topeka, Kansas, and places like...
This June, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is coming to Cambridge to supplement your education with a fact you are not likely to learn in your classes: God hates fags. Westboro Baptist—the Topeka, Kans. church infamous for its anti-gay demonstration at the funeral of hate crime victim Matthew Shepherd and for maintaining the website www.godhatesfags.com—announced last month that it will be picketing the commencement ceremony of Harvard Law School to protest the school’s proposed ban on offensive speech...
Your house seems to be acting like Cisco in early 2000. Home values surged 17% or more during the past year in cities hardly known for their flash, such as Tucson, Ariz., and Topeka, Kans. Many buyers are waving bids around without even inspecting the property. And money is flooding into McMansions and vacation homes, reminiscent of the cash that rushed into technology-stock funds that were all the rage a few years back. So the bubble police are on full alert, sensing another NASDAQ-like flameout...
What was even greater was that the 6’8 Winter, from Topeka, Kan., had become an important contributor to the Crimson offense. Winter had started a dozen games as a freshman when star forward Dan Clemente ’01 went down with injury, but last season he averaged only 16 minutes per game—almost always off the bench. Averaging only 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game, Winter wasn’t even Harvard coach Frank Sullivan’s first option off the bench...
...Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas," but still...) Besides, Berlin doesn't seem to have let Warren's feelings get in the way of another song quote. His 1947 "The Freedom Train" includes the lines: "It's a song about a train...