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...sprawling, palm-shaded spa with individual massage pavilions and a gamelan orchestra. The staff was likewise overhauled to include a host of specialists prepared to attend to your serenity: reflexologists who conduct hour-long sessions, ayurvedic healers from the subcontinent who lead weeklong herbal treatment courses and, lest we forget, chef...
...sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop. The poorer users could choose doses of low-grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River Phoenix...
...really excited to come over here because I had this idealized notion of European TV as constantly resembling Cinemax at three in the morning. Well, I learned that it is indeed like that in continental Europe, but the daytime soft-core pornography never crossed the English Channel. Lest we forget, we Americans inherited all our Victorian notions of sexual repression from the motherland...
There’s a quiet dignity that Frank Sullivan—as respected a coach as any in the Ivy League—cultivates in his basketball program, wins and losses be damned. Lest anyone consider the Crimson’s 4-10 Ivy mark as the standard by which the program be judged, the true measure of Sullivan’s record as coach was apparent Saturday night. Four rows behind the Harvard bench sat two former Harvard captains, all-around good citizens and loyal ambassadors of the program. Damian Long ’00 who is devoutly...
Buffett declined to be interviewed for this story lest, he says, he be besieged by follow-up media requests. No time for all that while he's hard at work saving American business from itself. Yet he doesn't view himself as any sort of caped crusader. "I've never seen him try to push an agenda," says Black. Buffett's efforts tend to be understated. But now that he's becoming more vocal about his beliefs, he can expect more opposition. In an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal, Harvey Golub, a director at Dow Jones...