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Helena Koenig founded the Grandtravel tour group--and coined the term grandtravel, now common in the industry--16 years ago. She has expanded from four tours to 20, and a host of imitators have sprung up. Hotels and travel groups of every stripe, from the Loews chain to Elderhostel, have...
The beginning was 1979, when Miyazaki graduated from Tokyo's Elite Gakushuin University. A scion of the family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by...
Summers’ concerns regarding science education were also well-founded. In the coming decades, science and technology will play increasingly pivotal roles in daily life, and many undergraduates leaving Harvard in the next few years will find themselves unprepared for a technological future. Given the rapid advance of knowledge...
Perhaps Columbia’s low self-estimation in the case of Riding in Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps...
With these issues in mind the Vatican, hardly an institution known for its radical liberalism, has come down on the side of peace. Last week Pope John Paul II made a call, in no uncertain terms, for people “to pray for peace and to be committed to...