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...When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking...
...trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees have Harvard degrees, which Maats says grants them “instant credibility.” For a mere...
...gamut...from prison advocacy to working on Wall Street, from gang violence to fashion,” Anderson said. Williams, who is currently studying abroad in Brazil and could not be reached for comment, wrote in the magazine that it seeks to “provide a fresh perspective; one conversant with the dynamism of urban culture and lifestyle, yet firmly grounded in a tradition of critical academic and intellectual dialogue.” BMF member W. Bilal Belardo ’08 said that the magazine serves as “a way to show black people?...
...technical necessity a short tune (most non-medley tracks on the Advantage album are under two minutes in length). The Advantage cover of the "Egypt" theme from Double Dragon III is a typical result; as it elaborates on its pentatonic sensibility with meandering guitar lines, the song brings a fresh sound to a well-worn tonal range. While this music shares a parallel creation to that of the Baroque masterpieces, the actual arrangement of 8-bit music most closely parallels modern rock music. It is in this genre that the clearest correspondences to the Nintendo sound can be seen...
...became the first independent black nation in 1804: The impoverished majority will accept nothing less than Preval, regardless of the actual vote count; most of the wealthy elite will fight to retain the status quo and keep him out of power. The election that offered the potential for a fresh start appears instead to have revealed that Haiti's crippling social divisions still drive its politics...