Word: east
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...ranging areas of study to choose from: astronomy, global issues, painting, history, music. The week-long program costs $1,950 per person, which includes some meals as well as the courses and accommodations. In high season, lodging alone at the tony Hyatt starts at $430 per night. On the East Coast, themed weekends, from birding to ballroom dancing, occur year-round at the 129-year-old historic Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y., where A.A.R.P. members receive 15% off standard room rates regardless of season. Most of the weekend programs are free to hotel guests, as are acres...
Saturnine by disposition, Syrian President Hafez Assad is not known for saying anything nice about anyone. So it astonished all manner of Middle East pundits last week when he showered praise on the leader of his No. 1 enemy, Israel. Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, Assad told an Arabic newspaper, is a "strong and honest man" who had a "real desire for peace." Barak blew a few kisses of his own, crediting Assad with creating a "strong, independent, self-confident" country...
...service station, while I waited for my new tire, I relayed Scott's comment to the owner, a charming old chap with a gray mustache. He told me people used to be much friendlier in Minnesota, but with the influx of people crossing our border in recent years, East and West Coast attitudes had spread and now he wasn't even sure if Minnesota was a place where he wanted to live...
...then there's the gang problem. An estimated 300 gangs and 7,000 gang members work the streets of Phoenix, selling drugs, stealing cars and occasionally aerating one another. One day officer Robert Vasquez brings an East Side gang member into the station for a chat--a kid he is trying to rescue after meeting him at an alternative school. The 17-year-old has a tattoo of an X under his right eye and an 8 under his left. It's his gang ID. He runs with Wetback Power's 18th Street crew. "It's crazy out there...
MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage...