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...central cost-cutting measures was a “rebudgeting exercise” undertaken by the school to eliminate unnecessary expenses. The results included holding operating budgets flat, keeping salary raises down at two percent rather than the usual four percent, suspending performance bonuses, implementing a “hard frost” on new hires, and keeping renovations and capital expenses to a minimum...
...former senior staff member. "But there's really only one party whose unhappiness gets him moving, and that's the Pentagon. That's where his sympathies lie." A current Hadley aide responded vigorously to the suggestion that his political views might have influenced his handling of intelligence: "That is flat untrue." --By John F. Dickerson and Massimo Calabresi
SUMMER SCHOOL CHORUS CONCERT. The 110-member Harvard Summer School Chorus presents choral masterworks accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists. Under the direction of Constance DeFotis, the chorus will perform Mozart’s Mass in C-Minor and Schubert’s Mass in B-Flat Major. Friday, August 1 at 8 p.m. Free; limit 2 tickets per person. Available through the Harvard Box Office. Sanders Theatre...
Every summer, as the hordes amass along France's Mediterranean coast, savvy travelers head southwest to the Atlantic and the relative quiet of the Bay of Biscay. There, in the region known as Basque Country, flat beaches give way to the soaring Pyrenees, which separate France and Spain. Those willing to forgo the glitz of the Cote d'Azur will be rewarded with splendid outdoor activities, including some of the best fly fishing to be found...
...still S&M - sand and masochism - those wonderful weeks of getting burnt, stung by jellyfish (and the local doctor who treats you), losing your watch while making sandcastles with the kids, eating a prawn that has gone off and having to be rescued by a lifeguard with an obscenely flat stomach. Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back...