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...when it comes to deciding what seasonal slogan to paint in the store window, this city’s merchants most often make a flawed decision. Why would you try to please everybody, when the holiday shoppers you’re trying to woo are mostly Christians anyway, and so are unlikely to be offended by a greeting that references their lord and savior? Forget the political correctness that drives conservative chatterboxes like Bill O’Reilly up the wall; the decision here is strictly business. And forget about attracting non-Christian shoppers—either they?...
...Ellis Island, the famed New York entry point for generations of immigrants, was magnificently renovated. But the hospital compound on the south side, where many arrivals were held in quarantine, was left to decay. For five years, Wilkes roamed the disintegrating buildings, with their cracked plaster and peeling paint, to make pictures of their gorgeous decrepitude. (Congress has since allocated money to preserve them.) Decline has never looked more haunting...
...When we do Math 55, we do it together,” he says. “When we have wild drunken parties, when we paint the town, when we piss on John Harvard’s foot, we do it together. Even if we’re calculating the trajectory of the piss at the same time, we’re doing it together...
Harvard Square, admittedly, has its share of warts, as well—here’s looking at you, Inexplicably Popular Spray Paint Art Guy—but to be perfectly honest, the thing is fundamentally this...
...hard for them to put it out.”Harvard also controlled the battle in the paint—a crucial statistic after a sub-par effort on the glass buried the Crimson against Cal. Harvard outrebounded the Spartans 44-35 and scored 40 points in the paint to San Jose State’s 26.“[Coach] Kathy [Delaney-Smith] told us before the game that if we didn’t rebound tonight, we probably shouldn’t show up for practice this week,” Rollins said...