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...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder With the U.S. presidential race in its final days, here are three great books that capture the campaign spirit: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H. White (Pocket Books; 481 pages) The classic election read - a riveting account of one of the closest contests in U.S. history, and a manual for understanding American politics. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (Flamingo; 480 pages) Thompson's gonzo take on Nixon's second campaign set the style...
WHEN JACK and Jaye Hickey decided to sell their classic six-bedroom, Cape Cod house on the 17th tee of the Skokie Country Club, in Glencoe, Ill., they counted on the usual headaches. Open houses, listing agents and a broker's fee are par for the course...
...October 2002, Roger, his wife and their five children took possession of the house, while the senior Hickeys moved to a home at Classic Residences by Hyatt in nearby Glenview. Everyone felt like a winner. "Just knowing the house is still in the family has a lot of emotional value for me and my wife," says Jack. And Roger, who is the host of the family's Christmas Eve dinner this year, is delighted to be in the home he has loved for more than 25 years...
Shouldn’t these opportunities for cost savings already be realized? When members of Sustainable Allston met with President Summers, he grimaced at the inefficiencies in Harvard planning and operations. Simply put, Harvard builds and operates irrationally. Harvard’s construction is a classic case of the principal-agent problem. Building planners (the University’s agent) pay insufficient consideration to subsequent operation costs, and the University (the principal) is saddled with inefficient buildings, unnecessarily harming the environment and wasting money...
This leaning is exhibited in, among other things, the way in which illustrations are included. In Classic Fairy Tales, images from a number of illustrators, often of the same scene, are included in rapid succession. Some stories have two or three pages of pure image to highlight the history that went into them...