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...allegations of the president’s lavish spending on the university’s tab prompted open dissent from students and faculty. The former held rallies demanding Ladner’s resignation, and the A.U. student government supported removal without a severance package...
...Wood [FLW] Championship, Cochran collected $500,000, which isn't bad for a couple of days' fishing. Two weeks later, at the competing Bassmaster Classic in Pittsburgh, Pa., of all places, the winner's haul of 4 lbs. 3 oz. was worth $200,000. Both events were televised in lavish productions...
...romantic ballgowns strewn with flowers - all against a backdrop of hay bales and, of course, two goats and a farmhand. Quite why the two designers, known among fashion folk as "the boys," decided to celebrate their longevity with this rollicking romp in the hay wasn't clear. But the lavish event also highlighted the fact that Dolce & Gabbana, once fresh from the farm themselves, have ripened into internationally respected designers with sales of $885 million in 2004 and an instantly recognizable, singular vision. The duo, along with other big names such as Armani and Versace, have long dominated the business...
GOTTLIEB: No. The major labels used to engage in lavish spending to buy chart success. Now they have to learn to conduct themselves quite a bit differently...
...gathered to raise money not for one of its established charities--the Human Rights Campaign, say, or the Democratic National Committee--but for an obscure organization that has quietly become one of the fastest-growing gay groups in the nation, the Point Foundation. Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students. It is one of the few national groups conceived explicitly to help gay kids, and it is a leading example of how the gay movement is responding to the emergence this decade of hundreds of thousands of openly gay youths...