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...usual income of $400 million to $500 million per year. The city has lost an estimated $1.5 million a day in tourism revenues since Katrina, and only a quarter of the 3,400 restaurants are open. Moody's has lowered the city's credit rating from investment grade to junk. The latest insult? The nation's flood-insurance program ran out of money for the first time since its founding in 1968, and some insurers temporarily stopped issuing checks...
...Deciding upon [The Hill School], a lot of it had to do with the fact that I was pretty young for my grade,” says Harris, who would have been an 18-year-old freshman last year had he chosen to enter college right after graduating from Harvard-Westlake. “I gained like ten pounds there. I definitely got a lot stronger, got more comfortable...
...something else in store. “When I was eight,” Harvard’s normally soft-spoken co-captain says, “that’s when I started playing. I was the only girl on a boys’ team up until sixth grade.”Years before she headlined a regional powerhouse at Sidwell Friends High School in Maryland, earned the nickname “Smooth Operator” from The Washington Post, and so consistently dominated the Washington, D.C., area’s Independent School League that she earned honorable mention...
...Side note: IM-ing after 1 a.m. is official relationship suicide). Away messages should neither be flirtatious nor personal, and sexual innuendos accompanied by a winking Pac-man face just aren’t sexual at all. In summary, leave instant messaging where it started—the sixth grade...
...third grade, my class visited the Bronx Zoo; in fourth grade, we moved on to Ellis Island; freshman year of high school, we were cultured enough for the Met; and senior year, mature enough for the Holocaust Museum in New York. For a long time, New York City was just the end-point of many long school bus rides. I assumed every building was a museum or a monument, forgetting that eight million New Yorkers had to live somewhere. New Haven was the center of my universe, and New York was two hours off my radar...