Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regular serving costs $2.45, which putsScoops & Beans at the upper end of the pricerange, but it's money well spent, particularlysince you get three scoops. Guava Pineapple sorbetand other "exotic" flavors cost 45 cents extra. Ifyou're willing to walk to the Christina's in InmanSquare at 1255 Cambridge St., the ice cream sellsfor $1.50 a scoop...
...list of suspects is somewhat predictable: Ike Fisher, Ella's ex-husband whose post-marital relationship seems more forced than it was forged; Lindsey Wentworth, Ella's upper-class executive assistant with a few secrets of her own; Christian Chung, the University comptroller rumored to have vied for Ella's job; Ian McAllister, head of the Economics Department and a staunch opponent of Ella's policies, and Leo Barrett, Harvard's newest president with a past to which only Ella was privy. Diverse though these characters may seem, the author makes little effort to develop their behaviors or idiosyncrasies...
...Chase hail from Detroit; both exhibited marked success in economics-related fields, and both are affiliated with Harvard. Self-aggrandizement? Possibly. A creative outlet? If that's what you want to call it, fine. But steer clear of the assessment that A Darker Shade of Crimson accurately exposes the upper echelons of Harvard society. Allow the book to entertain for you what fantasies it will, but don't doubt for a moment that, in her conception of academic life, the author is entertaining a few fantasies of her own as well...
...high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their executives have an examination, and pick up the tab on the theory that an unhealthy executive can drag down corporate productivity. About 3,000 people, mostly upper-echelon managers, take the Cleveland Clinic physical each year...
...were worth all the turmoil. But John Irving, for one, is not waiting around to find out. He's starting up his own private school--and stealing the principal away from the private academy where state senator Shumlin sends his kids. "My response is as brutally upper class as I can make it," says Irving. "I'm not putting my child in an underfunded public school system." If he can't get his new school up and running, says Irving, "I'm moving out of here." And he's avoiding the local press "because I don't want to make...