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...shooting to become an active organization once again. Sharply dressed (and belying his sharp-shooting skills), Perese said that all new members will first be trained in pistol and rifle safety under National Rifle Association guidelines, and then progress to skeet and trapshooting at the Fin Fur Feather Club in Millis, Mass. His goal is “promoting sportsmanship and exercising our Second Amendment right to bear arms.” Perese acknowledged that some oppose the new club. Though the club won’t hunt live game, “obviously there are people who are against...
...edge of the Mediterranean, its egg-shaped dome looking something like an ocean liner's hull or a spaceship. Designed by leading architect and native son of the city Santiago Calatrava, the building is a gleaming composition: curved walls, rolling stairways; turquoise reflecting pools topped by a detached, feather-like roof. But the Palau is more than an architectural masterpiece. An opera house that cost in the neighborhood of €325 million to build, it is also the riskiest element in the city's gamble to become one of Europe's major cultural destinations...
...labyrinthine world wherein the twains of Bollywood and the American West meet. There is the print of Charlie Russell’s “Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flatheads” in one corner—a coming-together between “Indian-Feather and Indian-Dot,” Marks notes gleefully while pointing to his forehead. And in another corner, we find the intimately decorated, framed pages from some Mumbai bookseller...
...resulting in even higher revenues for everyone else’s financial aid. Relying on only mega-donations from the parents of such “development admits” is not enough. The decline in grassroots donations that would result from taking away what amounts to a feather on the admissions scale is too high of a price for the College...
Penney has another feather in its cap: a more established online presence than Kohl's. Last January, in fact, its online sales hit $1 billion--and in the third quarter, sales via the Internet rose an impressive 27%. Ullman boasts that the company is "the largest mass merchant" online. A key advantage: the infrastructure set up to support the company's decades-old catalog business...