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Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Twice Triumphant | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson returns to the water next weekend at the Schell Trophy Regatta, hosted by MIT, and the Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn, hosted by Harvard...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bischoff, Porter Earn Berths in Nationals | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

...lesson is not that appeasement is always a failed strategy, but that it is a limited one. The Romans used goodwill gestures throughout their history. They found that when they sent a nice urn to a ally, the goodwill gesture could signal the desire keep a close relationship. There is nothing wrong with generosity bestowed from a position of strength. But as the Israelis discovered when they withdrew from Lebanon, if the gift is seen as a concession to violence, you’re in for a lot more violence. Late in the empire, the Romans could buy off some...

Author: By Ebon Y. Lee, | Title: How the Weak Wage War | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

Scott’s father was never found. And though his mother was given an urn full of dust and ash from Ground Zero, he has no concrete reminder of his father. He said he is hoping to get permission to carry a handful of dust or debris from Ground Zero back with him to Florida...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Somber Eve, Business as Usual in New York City | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...chief method of persuasion is to make the banal better so that people notice design more. He likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. "I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Poet Of Plastic | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

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