Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis, who lived in Quincy House as anundergraduate, says it is a recent incarnationthat Houses have all but assured upper-classstudents that they will have uncrowded livingarrangements--a single bedroom for every senior, acommon room large enough for all roommates tocomfortably share, at least one private bathroomper suite...
...YOURSELF TIME If you are looking for a lower management position, it can take up to about six months of consistent networking on average to find the position you want, says Deborah Arron, a Seattle career consultant. A middle-management job could take up to one year, and an upper-management position could involve a two-year networking crusade...
...barriers to Internet access are geographic. The online population is still largely well educated, pale skinned and upper-middle income--a point the Rev. Jesse Jackson reinforced in recent speeches to Silicon Valley leaders. Whites are twice as likely as blacks to own a computer and three times as likely to be plugged into the Internet...
...occupying just 9 1/2 ft. at 75 1/2 Bedford Street, was once the home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Another tiny house, a lopsided cottage on Charles and Greenwich, is surely one of the most charming in the city. Named Cobble Court, it was once located on the Upper East Side, where it housed Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, the onetime haunt of poet Dylan Thomas. And St. Luke's Place is a literary warren: novelist Theodore Dreiser lived...
Raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Lonstein began designing clothes out of necessity: she made her own bras and bathing suits when she had trouble finding any to fit her ample breasts and pencil-thin lower body. "I love clothing more than anything else," she confided over hot cider at a neighborhood lounge. "I almost walk through stores like one would walk through museums." After graduating from U.C.L.A. in 1997 with a dual degree in history and art history, she apprenticed at a lingerie company, where she learned that "it takes 38 pieces to construct a bra." Then...