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...industry's worst performance since the bursting of the high-tech bubble, the outbreak of SARS in Asia, and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 hit international travel earlier this decade. "The last months have been increasingly challenging," says Jean-Claude Baumgarten, president of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), an organization of travel executives, "and we clearly haven't seen the end of it yet." (See pictures of depressing destinations...
...most contentious votes of the semester, the Undergraduate Council voted 15-13 in favor of initiating a capital fundraising campaign to purchase the multi-million dollar 45 Mount Auburn St. property...
Administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences did little to allay students’ fears about impending cuts at yesterday’s town hall meeting hosted by the Undergraduate Council. The meeting came two weeks after FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced that a broad restructuring would be necessary to close a $220 million deficit over the next two years...
...appeared. A campaign pledge from President Barack Obama to close the U.S. facility holding suspected terrorists at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, became an executive order. Quickly, the jail's backers made a new pitch. Why not house those 240 detainees at Two Rivers? Hardin's City Council last week passed a resolution to entice the detainees their way, saying they could provide "a safe and secure environment, pending trial and/or deportation." Hardin naturally assumed their federal politicians would lobby their cause. (See behind-the- scenes pictures of President Obama's first 100 days in office...
...Ilan Halimi was targeted because he was a Jew and because his tormentors believed he had to be rich and deserved what was coming to him," says Richard Prasquier, president of the Representative Council of France's Jewish Institutions. "This gang attempted kidnapping two people before Ilan Halimi - both Jews. They were not dissuaded upon realizing Ilan worked in a mobile-phone store, didn't earn much and came from a modest family that couldn't be rich. To them, he was a Jew, so he was victimized...