Word: drabs
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...last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
Harvard may not let you light them, but Urban Outfitters' selection of scented candles make great gifts anyway. They come in a range of patterns, sizes and smells, individually and in packs of three and four. The colorful candles are wonderful eye candy for a drab corner of any dorm room, and the scents are more intriguing than the usual bayberry and pine...
Brightly colored balloons livened up the Science Center's drab exterior yesterday, as students protested against what they called Harvard's inadequate response to sweatshop regulation...
...LIST Who says politics is drab? L.A. entrepreneurs Marie Condron and Ian Riekes Trivers asked designers to create something au courant for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. Using the same techniques designers applied to '80s rock shirts this fashion season, they cut, slashed, fringed and studded campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling...
...California than the movies. Through 54 probing interviews with prominent writers, composers, architects and painters, Isenberg, a former chief arts writer for the Los Angeles Times, plumbs the qualities of the Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there. Painter David Hockney talks about leaving drab England for sunny L.A., where he captured on canvas the colors that shimmer across swimming pools. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses how growing up in a Chinese home in racially integrated Stockton helped her learn about different sensibilities. Jazzman Dave Brubeck, who grew up on a ranch in Ione, recalls...