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...drank too much. My first year I have a very vivid memory of being sick into a desk-side wastepaper basket. We lived on the ground floor, Adams F-2, and I remember looking up and seeing a middle-aged couple looking in the window with slightly worried expressions, as if they were thinking, "Oh the stress! These poor boys...
What's bad for the industry, of course, is good for those on the other side of the reception desk. Asian hotel rates and economy air fares are sinking fast. In Hong Kong, for example, the estimated average room rate at an international four- or five-star hotel in February dropped to $108 a night, down from $147 the previous year, while in Seoul the price cutting was even more dramatic: to $70 from $143, according to analysts at PKF Consulting. And although business-class seat prices are holding steady, economy fares are 20% lower than last year's, says...
...imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target 24 hours a day, sending photos that can be on the President's desk within an hour...
...received a report from the manager of Dining Services at Mather that there was a man in his office going through the top drawer of his desk," said Sergeant James McCarthy of HUPD. The drawer contained Harvard Dining Services money. While the manager was on the phone with HUPD, Houle threatened him with a knife, McCarthy said...
...gave my computer an angry stare this past Tuesday afternoon. I had a 17-page paper due Friday and an inbox full of unanswered mail. But my computer was not sitting in its customary spot my desk. It was packed in a cardboard box at the University Information Systems (UIS) parking lot in Allston...