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Think of it as luxury on loan. Whether it's the chance to drive a Ferrari or wear a Giorgio Armani gown, it's less about the cost and more about flexibility, convenience, choice and, ultimately, control. Exclusive Resorts, a membership-based club, offers access to more than 300 palatial vacation homes in Tuscany, Costa Rica and Mexico with as little as a day's notice. The World, a yacht that serves as a floating condominium building, lets out its staterooms for six-day cruises. In New York City, where socialites appear?and are photographed?at several galas or events...
...Independent's Spirit Awards ceremony, sometimes referred to as the Indie Academy Awards, leads to a beachfront tent full of celebs in their best dressy casual, sharing cocktails and off-color jokes and honoring movies made for budgets slightly less than the cost of the jewels Fred Leighton will loan out to Oscar hopefuls the next morning...
...would have to “pick up more of a burden,” especially for low-income students whose grants may be reduced due to the redistribution of financial aid funds and programs, Toiv said. Martha E.H. Holler, the managing director of corporate communications at the student-loan provider company Sallie Mae, said “it is not the time to cut financial aid programs.” “We’re not addressing the problem by moving multiple programs to another,” she said. Under President Bush’s budget...
...increase the guaranteed minimum income from 1,254 euros a month to 1,500 euros; to increase the lowest state pensions by 5%; to have the state pay rental deposits for its poorest citizens, to offer all young people starting out in the job market an interest-free loan of 10,000 euros, as well as to subsidize 500,000 starting jobs for citizens in that age bracket. Royal avoided any concrete suggestion that new taxes would be needed to pay for those new rights. She did say she wanted to shift the tax burden "from labor to capital." Beyond...
...always had an interest in experimental art, and had a problem with the fact that video [art] was supposed to be mainstream,” said Camacho, who is also a VES concentrator.With displays available for watching the films in the Sert Gallery, as well as a free loan program, EVR ambitiously aims to remedy that problem.As Lambert-Beatty says, “It’s like a video store—hands on—you get to go in and play.” —Staff writer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...