Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Zealand-born Cherry Bishop began her career in Australia, where she received training in dress design at the Sydney Institute of Technology. After making a name for herself by selling her fashions at the local Paddington flea market, she moved to New York in 1989 and the following year opened her own boutique, Halo, in the East Village. While Halo gained notoriety as one of the most fashion-forward destinations in the area, Bishop continued her studies in 1995 at Fashion Institute of Technology...
...CHIMAERA 117 East 7th Street (Between First & Ave. A) 212.475.8898 Hours: 2 p.m.-8 p.m., Wed.-Sun. All major credit cards. Gift-wrapping, special sizing and local delivery available...
...local basketball fans, few moments are as memorable as Larry Bird's steal and assist to Dennis Johnson that propelled the Celtics to a shocking 108-107 come-from-behind win against the Pistons in the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals...
...only problem is that Harvard is largely responsible for making the application so stressful in the first place. If Harvard doesn't want high school students who are burned out from singing soprano for the school play, playing point guard for the basketball team, serving food at the local soup kitchen and taking nine Advanced Placement classes, they don't need to talk about the problem. All they have to do is stop admitting them...
...year-old safe harbor dried up, this democracy looked to have gotten the president half of it wanted and the Supreme Court all of it deserved. The slenderest conservative majority of five declared the Florida game over, with a hard Scalia core shouting additional insults at the local referee. And the four liberals mourned that the fight for lost votes and elusive truth was called off cynically, with a few ticks still left on the clock...