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...from Hurlbut to the KSG tells only a small part of the story. Back then the Inn at Harvard was a Gulf gas station; the Holyoke Center was Dudley House for commuters; Hillel was squash courts. JFK Street was Boylston Street, with a Mobil station and Vespa dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort of our very...
...case of Kingdom Come, Ballard had to look no farther than Shepperton, hard by the M25 and Heathrow. "I've seen the southeast of England transformed from a realm of Georgian restorations, Gothic quadrangles and village greens into a world of motorways, surveillance cameras, business parks and vast retail operations. I've seen the proliferation of St. George's flags, as the white middle class retribalizes itself. It's not racist, yet. But we've had waves of immigration in recent years, and the whites are now saying, 'Remember us?' Politics has become a public utility, like sewerage...
...really complicated stuff was gone, leaving the more intuitive tools I use to clean up - or totally mangle - a photo. Photoshop Elements 5.0 has new editing features, but I won?t dwell on them, except to say that the program is still tops. What Photoshop Elements now provides, with vast improvement over earlier versions, is a nice way to organize and share pictures...
Minaya's formula is straightforward: use the vast resources of Mets owner Fred Wilpon to buy top players, but most important, trust your gut when filling out the mix. And skip the stuffing and sweet potatoes. On Thanksgiving Day 2004, Minaya trekked to the Dominican Republic to nail down his top target: free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez, fresh off a Series victory with Boston. "It's a family day, and you show up in a place where you're not supposed to be, just to talk to me," Martinez recalls. "That was more than enough." The four-year, $53 million...
...Brazil has posted low inflation, rising gdp and a strengthening currency. But in the slums, signs of progress prove as elusive as the rats that dart between the shacks. Wilson, 15, lives in the favela of Heliópolis, where half the 125,000 inhabitants are under 25. The vast majority come from Brazil's hardscrabble northeastern states, drawn by the hope of work, though unemployment runs at more than 20% in the slums. And while jobs are scarce, says Wilson, "there's no lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving...