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...surrounded by doctors, lawyers, and investment bankers. But among his classmates, Pappas’ profession might be one of a kind. After a quarter-century in the computer industry, Pappas left the business in 1994 and, the following year, started Lizzy’s Ice Cream in nearby Waltham. Now, with a scooper in hand, Pappas returns to Harvard Square. “I just love to come back,” he said yesterday. Nestled between Starbucks and the restaurant Cambridge, 1 on Church Street, Pappas’ store will offer exotic homemade flavors until 11 p.m. every...
...have the type of relationship where I would call her up after a competition, but she is staying at my house when she comes to coach the ballroom team next week. Following her daughter’s lead, Mariko’s mother began taking ballroom lessons at a Waltham dance studio. While there, Mrs. Cantley took lessons from Peter Walker. After Mrs. Cantley introduced Peter and Mariko, the two began competing in professional-amateur competitions together.My partner, Peter Walker, and I started dancing together at the end of my junior year, when I stopped dancing with the Harvard ballroom...
...loudly. When the music would start, they would sing the lyrics whiny with their eyes closed.Throughout the venue, people crowded around balconies and box seats anxious to see the most fashionable of the periphery and the show that was sure to grace the pages of the college newspapers from Waltham to Cambridge. The spectacle was lit by hue-changing lights and blinders (reminiscent of a Kiss concert) behind the bandstand. Death Cab took the stage with no memorable flair; their hope for humility was almost respectable.Words to describe the show and the music that followed hardly offer a fair portrait...
...same time corporate executives are paid retirement dollars for years they never worked, hapless employees lose supplemental retirement benefits for a lifetime of actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow...
...happy medium, as some camps have discovered, is combining specialty pursuits with old-fashioned recreation, creating a balance between work and play. At Emagination Computer Camps, which has locations in Waltham, Mass., Atlanta, Lake Forest, Ill., and the suburbs of Philadelphia, kids spend the day in three tech workshops, choosing among such options as building PCs, designing computer games and wiring toy robots. But they are also required to participate in one session a day of what the camp calls retro games. Among them: Ultimate Frisbee, kickball and swimming. Ah, wilderness! --With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago and Rebecca Winters/Los Angeles