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...decades, the mostly poor and illiterate people of Haiti (pop. 6 million) have accepted their fate at the hands of corrupt dictators. But in recent months a combination of blatant economic mismanagement, lavish corruption surrounding President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and brutal repression of those who protest his regime has brought increasing numbers of Haitians to a stark conclusion: enough is enough...
Though most of the newcomers have imitated People's low-fare strategy, one fledgling carrier went to the opposite extreme. Regent Air, which currently flies only two planes between Los Angeles and Newark, offers lavish $785 flights that feature caviar, French champagne and on-board hairdressers and stenographers. But Regent has also experienced lavish losses: in its first two years it went $38 million into...
...active members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals did their best to take ownership of their extracurricular activities—literally—embezzling almost $100,000 to finance their lavish lifestyles. In January 2002, Suzanne M. Pomey and Randy J. Gomes were indicted; nine months later they pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny and were sentenced to two and five years of probation, respectively. Pomey, former producer of the Hasty Pudding show and ex-president of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, was said to have spent her $23,000 share of the loot on shopping trips...
...talk to the coaches of Harvard opponents—they won’t spout statistics, only lavish praise you’d think would be reserved for their own players rather than for the guy who just picked apart their defense...
...published in a major journal like Science or Nature. But he doesn't have to, thanks to an organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration, or S.S.E., which held its annual meeting outside Gainesville, Fla., last week. The location--a Best Western overlooking Interstate 75--wasn't quite so lavish as the conference centers where neurologists or physicists routinely meet. Yet that didn't seem to matter for the hundred or so researchers who came to hear learned talks on, among other things, consciousness physics, astrology and parapsychology. Here, and in the society's Journal of Scientific Exploration, such topics...