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...Head Pub last weekend, Loker Commons can, for the first time since its opening bash 11 years ago, be called a rousing success. This time, we are confident that it will remain so. Upon walking in the door, it is immediately apparent that Loker Commons has finally outgrown its awkward phase. Gone are the arbitrary iMacs and math CAs in perplexing hats; they’ve been replaced with leather couches and a bar. The large, handsome space is replete with sturdy booths and flat-screen TVs. Each nooks and cranny has its own peculiar charm. One corner...
...billed as a solution to a problem seen in last year’s Faculty move to delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year. Under that legislation, which takes effect for the Class of 2010, first-semester sophomores would find themselves in advising limbo—having outgrown their freshman year advisors but not yet joining the concentration advising structure...
There have been times, especially during the late 1990s tech boom, when some business folk in the area thought they had outgrown their rich uncle. But their post-2000 experience, when other tech centers floundered but northern Virginia boomed, taught them otherwise. "You had your stable base coming from government contracting, and then you had this explosion around telecom, IT and the Internet," explains former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, who was a co-founder of Nextel and later a venture capitalist. "Then, after the bubble burst, you had this unfortunate need to build a homeland-security industry...
Once a haven for hippies, Marrakech has outgrown that phase along with its visitors. Today, it's a showcase of high design, mixing Euro cool with the medina's rich colors. The "new Marrakech" look is keeping local craftsmen busy: if you spy a piece[an error occurred while processing this directive] of furniture you like during your stay, most places will sell it to you and ship it back home...
...family goes back to the same little town on a lake every year, and the place itself is as precise a measuring stick as the pencil marks on the kitchen doorway. The basement is a warehouse of outgrown skates and half-finished lanyards. Last summer little sister's feet could barely reach the pedals. This summer she's racing down hills, while big sister is taller than some of my friends, her ears are pierced, her shoes have heels, when she's not barefoot. One summer they went to see the Baha Men; the next summer, La Boheme...