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...Take a look at the numbers,” Devitt said. “This is a first-class institution and is the equal or superior of Harvard in many areas...
...education that the GSAS would actually strengthen the College. Only “if [professors] have to teach graduate students as well as undergraduates,” he argued, would they “regard their subjects as infinite, and keep up that constant investigation which is necessary for first-class teaching...
...something a little more sophisticated, there's Restaurant Bobby Chinn (www.bobbychinn.com). The star of Hanoi's growing foodie set, owner-chef Bobby Chinn offers first-class food at developing-world prices, with entrees like aromatic green tea-smoked duck and braised pigeon wrapped in rice paper. The eclectic and lavish setting - including a red-silk hookah lounge with suspended white roses - reflects Chinn's Egyptian-Chinese-Kiwi roots. The origin of the popular codeine-tablet cocktail is less clear...
That's evident in the first-class boutique hotels recently built in the city's large stock of grand old buildings. The most sumptuous is the Hotel Le St-James (514-841-3111), which was fashioned out of a 130-year-old merchant-bank building in the Old Montreal district. Travelers looking for suites with antique furniture and plasma-screen-TV-equipped, marble-encased bathrooms can alight here for $300 to $3,750 a night. A bit pricey, non? "Our guests don't ask the price, they ask for the square footage," sniffs the hotel's directeur-general Guy Luzy...
Airports resemble France before the Revolution: first-class passengers enjoy "lite" security lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach--held at bay by a flight attendant--are allowed to foul the Jetway...