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Back in the late 60s and early 1970s, fashion designers created warm-weather clothes for affluent women who were heading south to the tropics, where they would wait out winter's chill in more temperate climes. They called it resort or cruise wear, and the tags stuck even when many of those women started staying home and going to work...
...Coney Island's noisy eccentricity. The Cyclone and Wonder Wheel are national landmarks, but Sitt's company now plays landlord to most of the rest of Coney Island's rides. The locals are particularly concerned, since some of Sitt's actions-- he demolished go-karts and batting cages this winter, long before he could start building anything to replace them--evoke one of the darker chapters in Coney Island redevelopment. In 1966, Fred Trump (Donald's father) tore down the Steeplechase amusement park to try to prod the city into letting him build high-rise housing. When the city didn...
...Laying out the case for a revamped calendar that would include a fall exam period before the winter holidays, a four-week long break between terms, and a spring term exam period that would end a week and a half earlier than at present, the report weighed in at some 20-plus pages and underwent 13 revisions. Meanwhile, Petersen’s schoolwork went neglected...
...Other than getting to go, [for me] the incentive is to get to share my passion,” says Genney Professor of Anesthesia Warren M. Zapol, who studies human respiratory failure and will head to the Southern waters of Antarctica for the ninth time this winter...
...reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools time to attend to the details of coordination.Though the original report of the Verba committee endorsed the creation of a January...