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Comedian Colbert launches bid for President...
...Prior to 20 years ago, these small hotels didn't even exist," says Mary-Anne Denison-Pender, whose Mahout agency promotes small Indian hotels in the U.K. In the '80s, in a bid to finance maintenance on their private properties, some families tried their hand at the hotel business. "Every person with a fort thought they had a hotel, but many of them didn't invest enough, and they got backpackers and low-budget tourists," she says...
...shot from the center of the circle, but it was deflected by BU freshman goalie Kim Kastuk before junior Kristin Bannon could redirect it out of harm’s way. The Crimson had another chance in the second. Freshman Maggie McVeigh challenged Kastuk’s shutout bid when she redirected junior Abbie Harpstead’s shot, but the rookie keeper rose to the challenge. At game’s end, Harvard’s opportunities were too few, too little, and too late. In total, the Crimson managed only four shots on goal compared to the Terriers?...
...Officials believe, however, that many antique dealers have no idea they are trafficking in stolen goods, because there are hundreds of icons legitimately on the market, having been sold legally by churches or private chapels or imported from dealers abroad. In a bid to track the illicit trade, Brazil's legislature recently passed a law obliging all antique dealers to register with authorities by December. It'll take more than that, however, to trace the stolen goods, says Monteiro...
...melodies of Liszt, Schubert, and the Harvard Krokodiloes filled the vaulted chamber of Memorial Church last night as students, faculty, and others gathered to bid farewell to music lover and avid public servant Henry C. Fienning ’06-’08. Fienning’s favorite pieces of music were interspersed with accounts of his warmth, compassion, and dedication to service. “Henry was an exceptional human being,” said Leone E. Price ’06, a close friend of Fienning. He was “one of those rare people with...