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...floating hotel in Long Beach, Calif. The QM2 has some of the old ship's glamour--and, with a nod to nostalgia, one of its whistles. But the focus is catering to modern taste: the QM2 offers the only planetarium at sea, the largest dance floor afloat, education-lite courses by Oxford professors and a luxurious 20,000-sq.-ft. spa run by the upscale Canyon Ranch chain. Cabins are comparatively roomy, and three-quarters of them have balconies. Some observers on the preliminary tour complained that the furniture in some of the lounges looked cheap and that deck chairs...
...American Letters [Nov. 24], Lev Grossman described King as an "unrepentant horror monger." But Grossman admits that the great literary novels of the past were often as popular as the works of King. It's clear that King is in a class of his own; he is élite. And the American reader should be credited with appreciating this. A great writer raises standards and makes all writers work harder. King's prose and storytelling changed the landscape of the novel years ago. It's about time he was recognized for his contribution. Katherine Carter Malibu...
...ideas, she called on celebrity friends who also have diabetes, including Halle Berry (who offered a recipe for Berry Cool Chicken Chili). Drawing from what she learned and her own homegrown recipes, LaBelle published a healthy-eating cookbook this year titled Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine (Gotham; $26). The book carries seals of approval from both the A.D.A. and the American Dietetic Association. "It's not just for diabetics," LaBelle insists. "It's for anyone who wants to eat healthier food...
...fees are introduced, he worries, "it will just be a number of years until the cap comes off and we'll have a system similar to what they have in the States." In France, the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (IEP), one of the country's élite higher-learning institutions, announced in September that annual tuition at the school will rise from the current €1,050 up to €4,000 a year. Students from low-income families will pay less than those from more affluent ones. UNEF, the French National Students' Union, claims the increase...
...kind of facile and simplistic drunkenness. For, though money may well be at the root of all evil, it can also pave the road to a greater justice, a more benevolent, though still imperfect, world. Indeed, the one major difference I have thus far seen between the supposedly "élite" university where I also teach - the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris, for which most must pass an entrance exam and pay around 31,000 in annual tuition - and the more "democratic" ones, is that the former works. A manageable number of students actually show up in a classroom...