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...industry may have no megahit in 2004, but there are always shortages in the holiday season. This year's: the Polar Express train set by Lionel. The movie hasn't done well, but that doesn't seem to matter to kids who are dreaming of that classic toy. My assignment: to find that train. How difficult could it be, especially in a sea of Nintendo lovers? But two high-end boutiques, five discount behemoths and many blank looks later, anxiety sets...
...places are sold out until the new year, although a customer-service manager chirpily tells me that if I'm patient, she will send me a free holiday boxcar with Santa on top to put under the tree. Frantic, I dial hobby shops across the country. Nobody has the train, and some owners share theories why. Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back at the U.S. for screwing up trade relations. Another blames a boat jam in San Francisco harbor...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Hospital students have to come here to train,” said Jones. “We are the premier education center for this type of technology...
...Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government announced yesterday that it has agreed to assist the small Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai in establishing a school of government to train its next generation of leaders. Former United States Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine will be the first Executive Director of the Cambridge-based Middle East Governance Initiative, a Kennedy School program...
While musicals are commonly performed around campus, rarely are they as fully homegrown. While Lawler had the idea to write a musical in fall 2003, the script was put on the back-burner when Lawler took a year off to train for the Olympic Trials as a swimmer. “I came back with about 60 pages of script and sent out an email on Cabot Open saying that I was looking for a composer.” That email turned up the composer Scheuer, already a veteran of three similar endeavors...