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Anyone lucky enough to sail the open seas aboard one knows that Swans are the cream of the crop. Nautor's Swan, the renowned Finnish boatbuilder that was infused with a bit of fashion-world glitz when Leonardo Ferragamo (Salvatore's son) acquired the company in 1998, recently introduced the newest model in the SwanLine, the Club Swan 42, above. Created in partnership with the venerable New York Yacht Club, the yacht is the first in a new one-design class and is intended to level the playing field in racing with strict equipment regulations...
...this annual period of lunacy at Harvard—when newly inducted members of final clubs besiege the campus in vulgar outfits, and a crop of would-be politicians try their luck at student government—the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) has introduced a new element of farce: The group wants students to endorse a detailed ballot initiative whose potentially huge cost it is unable to even estimate...
Posters of Nasrallah, usually grinning, may crop up everywhere, but the cleric himself is still deep in hiding. During the summer's fighting, the Israelis made no secret that they were trying to assassinate him. Western diplomats in Beirut say they are trying to persuade the Israelis that killing the Hizballah boss is no longer a good idea. His murder could spark reprisals across the Middle East. Hizballah has ways of taking revenge. After Israelis targeted a previous Hizballah leader in 1992, the militia blew up the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. Should Nasrallah be killed, Israeli missions today would...
When such inequities crop up, parents need to be on guard not to be angry with the child who got the goodies and not to badmouth the relative who paid for the expensive gift, says psychologist Jonathan Pochyly of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Like all attacks on an ex or a new stepparent, negative remarks are deeply destructive to the new, blended family...
...more ticket will run against the crop of candidates gunning to lead the Undergraduate Council (UC), after a presidential ticket withdrew via e-mail but a UC official said the virtual missive was illegitimate...