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...corner of Bali known for its bucolic tranquility-isn't as contrived as you would expect. Founders Howard Klein and Tom Talucci have lived in Indonesia for over 10 years, and have traveled its islands extensively. The insights they have garnered, as well as their evident good taste, lend the resort an unaffected charm. "We always wondered why no one replicated what it's like to live a village lifestyle," says Klein, before laughingly admitting that having 80 satellite-TV channels in every house (as well as Internet access and air-conditioning) is hardly typical of rural Indonesia...
...Winner,” set to debut Sunday, March 4 on Fox, seems downright tame. He insists it has the right combination of heart and humor that made traditional sitcoms like “Cheers” such big hits—strange words from the man who lends his voice to maniacal baby Stewie and Brian, a talking dog with an alcohol problem, on “Family Guy.” But whether “The Winner” will create the same comic magic as “Family Guy” remains to be seen...
...Students are going to be very heavily involved,” said Smider. “My role here is to just lend my experience...
There are many people who we want in our dorm rooms. We open our doors to prospective students and to roommates’ high school classmates. Sometimes, we lend our futon to a friend who missed the last Quad shuttle of the night. On a very good Friday night, we stumble home with that senior from section. And then there are people who we don’t want in our rooms—people whose presence makes life decidedly awkward, uncomfortable, or worse. Like room inspectors, who leave us with a handful of pop tarts and no toaster oven...
...further U.N. authorization to overthrow Saddam Hussein. But look more closely: what the two cases show is less Bush's la carte approach to international law than an Administration shrewdly exploiting global pressure to follow international law while advancing presidential power and, at the same time, trying to lend legitimacy to a failing Iraqi court system...