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Despite its age, that map seems to be missing Olin...and MBCC, which should have been on there in the first place. Unless it just ignored everything outside 128.
 
Locke-Ober owner David Ray explains his decision to close.

An attitude becoming of a Parisian public toilette attendant, abominable service, and cuisine worthy of a culinary crime scene more-so than a Michelin, doomed this institution to a future reopening as a hipster or hip-hop hellhole.
 
It's definitely skipping colleges outside 128 (Wellesley, Olin, Regis, MBCC, Babson)
 
Ron Newman said:
I'd bet on a Suffolk-Emerson merger before that, but who knows.
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I have to say I could certainly picture this. But it would have to happen after Suffolk sells off the part of it's campus on Temple St. And then you also have to consider however, that there's a mild 'rivalry', though I personally feel it is mostly in jest due to proximity.
 
While that makes sense due to proximity I would be surprised if it happened because Emmerson is such a specialized school. They would just become the Communications department of Suffolk. It wouldn't be a marriage of equals. Sort of the same reason I didn't include Mass College of Pharmacy with the Fenway College idea.
 
statler said:
While that makes sense due to proximity I would be surprised if it happened because Emmerson is such a specialized school. They would just become the Communications department of Suffolk. It wouldn't be a marriage of equals. Sort of the same reason I didn't include Mass College of Pharmacy with the Fenway College idea.
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Well, personally, I would say that's a benefit to merger if not a good reason to merge. Seems like, to me, it's much easier to merge several highly specialized colleges around a competent gen-ed core than it would be to roll together several different gen-ed programs.

Also, I would think that a college with, say, a world-reknowned Communications program AND a world-reknowned Pharmacy program would have more prestige than two colleges with one of each.
 
I get really really offended when people from other countries say that Americans are dumb! Where do they get...what? What's this? I don't see what this...oh. Oh my.
 
statler said:
I get really really offended when people from other countries say that Americans are dumb! Where do they get...what? What's this? I don't see what this...oh. Oh my.
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I think Boston had that same problems way back when they were building the BU bridge, or one of those bridges that span the Charles River. Fighting over toll receipts is the culprit.
 
Charlestown Bridge vs Warren Bridge (where the 'New' Charles River Dam is now). That went all the way to the US Supreme Court in the 1830s.
 
Lurker said:
Locke-Ober owner David Ray explains his decision to close.

An attitude becoming of a Parisian public toilette attendant, abominable service, and cuisine worthy of a culinary crime scene more-so than a Michelin, doomed this institution to a future reopening as a hipster or hip-hop hellhole.
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It just wasn't fun anymore. The stuffiness could have been done with more of a wink and a Belle Epoque funkiness.
 
Seriously off topic even for the open thread but...

A 53 story tower is about to be built right near me!

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/48572

Finally, my chance to go to a community meeting and be the lone pro-skyscraper voice.

Also, to fulminate like crazy about the terrible base.
 
czsz said:
Seriously off topic even for the open thread but...

A 53 story tower is about to be built right near me!

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/48572

Finally, my chance to go to a community meeting and be the lone pro-skyscraper voice.

Also, to fulminate like crazy about the terrible base.
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I'm getting some serious The Clarendon vibes from that lower facade.
 
datadyne007 said:
I'm getting some serious The Clarendon vibes from that lower facade.
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Heh, I thought the same thing when I was looking at this earlier. It's as if someone took all the white+glassy sections out, lumped them together elsewhere on the tower, plus added some more. On a much bigger scale, though, of course.
 
Outside perspective on the world of Boston sports fandom...pretty quotable:

http://www.thestar.com/sports/artic...-can-learn-from-this-city-of-sports-champions

"In every other city, the teams are an extension of the place they play. In Boston, the city is an extension of the teams."

"Boston’s been tilting at the windmill that is the greatest city on Earth for over a century. For the last little while, they’re winning. They’re the Finns to New York’s Red Army."
 
Random question as I'm planning my next trip:

Many of the members of this forum are pretty well-versed in other countries. I've been lucky enough to spend a lot of time in Europe (particularly the Netherlands and Spain), India and a good chunk of time in Japan. I covered a lot of ground in those places and really did some exploring. However, I've been to a number of other places on business and for vacations with the girlfriend or with friends and I've come home disappointed about how little I got to explore the city/region. How do you guys do it?

When I'm by myself (I usually make time at night or early AM when friends/family or GF is sleeping), I cover tons of territory on foot with my camera. I go out day and night to the point where my feet are aching by the time I hit the pillow. However, when I'm traveling for work, I usually don't have time. Between flying in, going to work, inevitably getting dinner at the hotel restaurant and drinks at the hotel bar (sometimes I can convince them to get out of the hotel to try something new, buy most hate to leave their comfort zone), going to bed and either working or heading home the next day, business travel usually completely deprives me of the opportunity to do some exploring.

Traveling with buddies- well, you know how that goes. I have some friends who like to do a little sightseeing but it's usually about getting drunk/laid. That leaves little time to get out and look. Same with traveling with the GF. My ex did a great job of dealing with my desire to "go walk around and be a nerd with your camera," but still tired pretty quickly. And obviously if she walked around with me a little during the day it meant "her time" at night (dinner, overpriced wine, etc).

I've been dating someone for a few months and we're thinking of a cheap, 4-5 day trip in February. She wants to go someplace warm (Bahamas, Dominican or, *gag* Cancun) and I'm pretty set on Quebec City (one of my favorite places on Earth). I've done the Caribbean ad nauseum. I don't mind a tropical getaway to someplace nice, but Punta Cana, Cancun, and the Nassau area are some of my least favorite places. I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering booking Quebec and dumping her (it's not a "forever" thing, anyway... more like a convenient thing). Hey, it'll save me Christmas and Valentine's presents and getting up early to put towels down on pool chairs at our trashy all-inclusive on Punta Cana.

But how to you all do it? Do you go by yourself to these places? I'm tempted to book Quebec and go by myself, but I've never done that and am afraid I'm going to look like a complete loser. How do you make the most out of your travel experiences? There's nothing I hate more than feeling like I missed out because I didn't fill my time well enough.
 
IAM thinkin ask OLDE UNCLE. HE say valu enginereing: balance cost of"HIRING GIRLFRIENDS for weeksend agenst cost of baLLSinChain goin wit yOu."
 
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