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Legal Seafoods, the upscale restaurant chain, will open a location in the Charles Hotel plaza in May, despite protests from members of a neighborhood preservation group...
Such an assault on Syria's client state Lebanon would enrage Damascus. To which the view in the Administration seems to be, Too bad. Even some officials who are privately dismissive of the neoconservative agenda seem prepared to yank the chain of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom they consider a disappointing, feeble reformer who has failed to rein in his own security forces. U.S. intelligence believes Syria allowed men and materiel--including night-vision goggles--to cross its border and join Saddam's forces during the war. When asked last week what he would do if Saddam's weapons...
...sweet nothings too hard to hear. Enter the Quiet Party, where all talking above a gentle whisper is banned, cell phones are forbidden and the jukebox is muted. Participants chat mostly via notes; some are suggestive, others discuss current events, while still others seek creative potential mates by starting chain stories. The first Quiet Party took place in New York City last November, and now the idea is spreading nationwide. The first international Quiet Party is scheduled for this spring in Beijing. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Harvard, however, Schaffer found the football program too regimented for his liking. “Football in a college setting…is more like the military,” writes Schaffer. “There is a strict chain of command in its arrangement of both players and coaches. Players report to position coaches, who report to offensive or defensive coordinators, who then report to the head coach. All orders are to be followed eagerly and wholeheartedly, with little room for dissent...
...numeraries, these men and women dedicate their lives to Opus Dei, make a promise of chastity and are encouraged to take on a regimen of physical mortification that includes wearing a “cilis,” a spiked metal chain, around their thighs and placing boards over their mattresses...