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Rebecca Ruck Dunn and her husband moved to Minturn from Vail two years ago. The big draw: they could buy a single-family home for the $500,000 they'd pay for a condo at the Prada end of the valley, where Range Rovers and $3 million villas outnumber cattle and sheep. Growth, Dunn wistfully notes, is inevitable. "But," she adds, "I hope we can grow gracefully. There are resort towns that were in the position Minturn is in now. It makes sense to learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. I'd like to see an effort...
...Meanwhile, the continuing American and British policy is to draw down, not increase, their military presence in southern Iraq. The British are in the midst of pulling out of the port city of Basra. The long-standing American policy has been to defer to Shi'ite religious sensibilities and keep as low a profile as possible in holy cities like Karbala and Najaf...
Mattison has argued that the University isn't sufficiently prepared to handle the large crowds and the heavy traffic that the game is likely to draw. Last season, Harvard averaged more than 15,000 fans, and Murphy has pledged to make the game one of the highest-attended of the year...
...apply to several of the highest ranking schools. "I told them that [the list] gives a good sense of where to get a good education in the United States, but you have to make the ultimate decisions based on your own criterion and judgments." Shum added that one draw for him is MIT's hacking culture, which he says is "something that a list can't take into account—you can’t quantify that...
...Blair era. He's now preparing to fight an election, possibly even as early as this fall, to turn that popularity into a fresh political mandate. That means, says Dr. Toby Dodge, an Iraq expert at Queen Mary College, University of London, he'll be "trying to draw a thick black line under the Blair legacy. Of course, the big stinking fish of the Blair legacy is Iraq...