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...with being a full-time host, Maloof has discovered, is that you have to be approachable. As teams of strippers practice water volleyball for the upcoming $10,000 tournament, women in mermaid tails splash in a tank behind him and go-go dancers cut loose inside a giant clear balloon at the poolside bar, Maloof is approached by a parade of personalities: a guy who wants him to invest in a pizza restaurant; a middle-aged Arab who wants to be reimbursed for part of the $10,000 he just lost in blackjack; a singer who wants Maloof to hear...
McCormick began this year by organizing a “test balloon of a workshop” on computational philology—the science of texts—which brought together experts in artificial intelligence, classicists and computer scientists to create software that would help historians identify and determine the origin of documents based on language, he says...
...troops will be resisted. Spain has withdrawn its troops, and Poland may leave next year. But if--a big if--the coalition can manage to restore stability, The Europeans may then be prepared to help. Germany, which wants a seat on the U.N. Security Council, has launched a trial balloon about sending troops to help patrol U.N. elections penciled in for January. And European businesses will be more than willing to help rebuild the country once the U.N. is in charge...
...Dallas Get your marriage off to a flying start: book a hot-air-balloon wedding with Texas firm The Sky's the Limit. Reverend and balloon pilot Jim Whitesell will take you and your loved one up to around 1,000 m, where he conducts the sky-high service. The package costs $591 and usually lasts an hour. Wedding guests can tail behind in extra balloons, or follow the couple's progress from the ground. www.texasballooning.com...
Four new Houses mean at least 1,500 new undergraduates. Imagine what this will mean for academics. More mediocre Teaching Fellows (TFs) will assume teaching duties, professors will be less accessible and intro-course class sizes will balloon beyond Sanders Theatre’s capacity. On the plus side, Harvard athletics will get a boost when Ec 10 students stay after class—now held in the Harvard Stadium—and actually sell out a home football game. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for TFs and sending class sizes higher and higher does not sound like...