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Adelson is trying to bring a new ingredient to the basic Las Vegas hotel rooms: comfort. The bathrooms in the all-suite Venetian are the size of standard hotel rooms. He spent $9 million just to create step-down living rooms in each suite, to impart the feeling of luxury. "Las Vegas' yesterday thinking was casino-centric. The idea was to deprive guests of creature comforts to keep them in casinos," he says--no minibars, no snacks in the room, no safe-deposit boxes, no fax machines and certainly no computer hookups. Says he: "If you were hungry, they imagined...
...fidelity to the chain fences that protect hikers from the plunging precipices. Seventy miles of trails wind around 72 peaks, the two most majestic of which are Capital of Heaven and Lotus Flower. The highest of the mountains is less than 6,150 ft., but their steep, stark slopes impart a distinctly higher authority...
...Above all, we continue to share his belief that journalism can be, at its best, a noble endeavor. It can make people think--and make them think differently. It can be empowering and liberating. And, of course, it can be fun and exciting. That's what Luce sought to impart in his new magazine, and what we seek to impart in our new one each week...
...somewhat skeptical of the idea that we are "learning how to learn," a theory that career advisers and Harvard bureaucrats like to use. If this is true, then we would hardly need the Core curriculum or the QRR since every class would impart the same fundamental knowledge. But if we are not going to use what we learn, and we are not learning to learn, then ultimately we must be buying the name for our future...
...that run from Monday through Thursday are generally Harvard course tie-ins, the weekend schedule is his to program as he wishes. I ask how he goes about picking films and he explains that his decisions are based on "a whole host of ingredients." But he makes sure to impart that he sees film as "an artistic means of expression, a personal means of expression...