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...identifying their brand": running all black-cast sitcoms one night, sci-fi another, and wrestling still another night, it left little idea what the hell kind of network it is. (Though it did a great job of serving young African-American women who love The Undertaker and attend Star Trek conventions.) Today, UPN entertainment president Dawn Ostroff announced that, after extensive market research, the network had realized it was "Unconventional, ambitious...
...Barking Crab, located on the waterfront near the Financial District, does the East Coast justice. After summers of soggy fries and rubbery fried clams, it was refreshing to eat at a place where the food was as pleasant as the atmosphere. The restaurant is a minor trek from the South Station T-stop, located directly on the water. During the warmer months, limited boat docking is available for customers...
...trails offer endless opportunities to experience at close range the raw and diverse geography created by erosion, volcanism and shifting tectonic plates. If you start at Zabriskie Point (a setting for Michelangelo Antonioni's film and the best place in the valley to watch the sun rise), you can trek down 2.8 miles past pale blue-green desert holly shrubs, sun-drenched yellow badlands, the fluted walls of Red Cathedral and the pinnacle of stately Manley Beacon and end up at the base of Golden Canyon--named for its radiance in the morning light...
Amidst a sea of shiny silver space blankets, runners of all ages gulped water and gnoshed on fruit and energy bars as they recuperated from their 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton, Mass. to the heart of downtown Boston for yesterday’s 107th running of the Boston Marathon...
Each year, a small number of intrepid students work on architecture and urban studies through special concentrations. I commend these students, for few students would be devoted enough to work without the support of a formal concentration and trek to MIT for studio classes—clearly an essential aspect of any architecture and urban studies program. Just because people can do special concentrations and cross-register for classes does not mean they should have to do so. There are distinct advantages of formal concentrations—tradition, advising, specific courses—and in addition, having a concentration legitimizes...