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...spending more money on Harvard-endorsed parties and programming for the planned campus pub. Harvard’s women would be better served by democratizing a social scene dominated by all-male institutions than by meeting rooms. Only when women do not have to stand outside a final club mansion in a short skirt and heels, hoping to be judged “hot” enough to have a social life, will substantial progress be made towards mitigating gender inequalities amongst Harvard students. To this end, Harvard should also be prepared to collaborate with existing women?...
...process making a fortune for himself estimated at $25 billion. The two men have known each other for years and, as board members of the steelmakers' international trade group, meet regularly to discuss industry-wide issues. But on Jan. 13, after predinner drinks in Mittal's Kensington Palace Gardens mansion, the Indian popped the surprise question to his European rival: Why not merge their two companies...
With business success has come wealth and opulence. He acquired the Kensington mansion, said to be the world's most expensive home, from Formula One racing's Bernie Ecclestone two years ago. And in 2004, he and his family made headlines around the globe when he threw a $50 million wedding bash for daughter Vanisha. It included an engagement ceremony at Paris' Tuileries Gardens featuring parrots and a tiger; an opera and banquet at the French royal palace at Versailles; and a Kylie Minogue concert and sit-down dinner at the 17th century Vaux le Vicomte Chateau, where chefs from...
...DARKER COMPLEXITIES OF BUILDING A life abroad are lost on most Tuxpeos, who see Coria's mansion in Mexico and his new truck as tangible evidence of his success. Early on, friends and relatives asked how they could make their way to the Hamptons. In 1985 he brought over his half brother Fernando. Fernando invited two friends, who started bringing their relatives. A handful became dozens. Dozens become hundreds. There are no reliable estimates, but workers in the Hamptons say there are as many as 500 Tuxpeos living full-time in the area, and scores more show...
...states were more active than Missouri, where Republicans last year took control of the Governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature for the first time in 84 years and thus strengthened the antiabortion majority in the statehouse in Jefferson City. Governor Matt Blunt even summoned the legislature into special session in September to pass bills that allow civil suits to be brought against anyone who helps a Missouri teen obtain an abortion without a parent's consent and that require doctors who perform abortions to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Generally, only...