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...other side of Brattle Street, City Sports will move into the storefront above Ann Taylor that was vacated by Utrecht Art Supplies last summer, leaving behind its 16 Dunster St. location by June...
Sources: United Nations, CIA World Factbook, Utrecht University, East View Catographic, National Geographic, Nelles Maps
Officials from Britain and Spain meet this month for further talks on the territory's future. The two countries are closer to agreement than at any point since 1713, when the King of Spain, under the Treaty of Utrecht, ceded sovereignty "in perpetuity" to the Crown of Great Britain. Spain has been fighting to get Gibraltar back ever since, and both sides hope that this historic dispute between two E.U. members will be sorted out by summer - at least at the bilateral level - most likely with a draft proposal for phased-in shared sovereignty...
Bloembergen received a degree in physics from University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1943. He was forced into hiding later during the Nazi occupation of Holland. After the war he was a graduate student at Harvard and received an honorary masters degree from Harvard...
Born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants, Geffen showed no taste for academics. At New Utrecht High School, where his senior yearbook predicted he would be a dentist, Geffen finished in the bottom tenth of his class. But he was inspired by business, an interest nurtured partly by his mother's proprietorship of a bra-and-corset shop. After dropping out of two colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential...