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...boiled water on the stove for sponge baths for three days until French repairmen appeared. "The French have a different sense of urgency," Conlon says dryly. That hasn't deterred the couple from planning a regular sabbatical, however. Who can resist playing English cottager, Parisian apartment dweller or Tuscan farmhouse owner--if only for a short while...
...Moscow, purchasing big banks and companies in Siberia, and investing in the telecommunications network of Nepal. Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia that attracts rather than supplies guest workers. "Kazakhs don't work in other countries' markets as vendors," proudly comments Zhenis Kasenov, an Astana dweller. "Kazakhs come there as buyers." Oil wealth, however, often brings corruption in its wake, and for three years the country has been embroiled in "Kazakhgate." In March 2003, in the most far-reaching charges ever brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. prosecutors charged James Giffen, an American businessman...
...then superimposed text over the middle of the photograph. The words were treehugger, damn hippie and bleeding heart. The point I was getting at is that we have stereotypes about what treehuggers, damn hippies and bleeding hearts should look like. You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment...
...years, Brand morphed a program that had stood for years as an Ivy League cellar dweller into a national powerhouse. After taking over at Harvard in 1999-2000, Brand has guided the women to two consecutive Ivy League titles and the men’s first ever outright Ivy crown this year...
From cellar dweller to national champion, from a blizzard in New York to the champions’ podium in Houston, the Harvard fencing team added perhaps the only unwritten chapter to its 100-year history at Rice on Sunday...