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...Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy. Once she was teargassed and clubbed unconscious by police. Another time she was arrested and put in a jail cell overnight with no mattress. Always her popularity and idealism have stayed intact...
...much time does Glenn S. Jackson '99 spend in his Dunster House residence? "A lot," he jokes, "even though there are no books." Nor is there much of anything else--except a king-size mattress encircled by a room-spanning platform constructed to produce a completely sunken effect...
...party, Inglis is a little too much hall monitor and not enough of a pol. At home he chastised conservatives for flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse and for the G.O.P.'s tradition of racially divisive politics. In Washington, where he sleeps on an air mattress in his office, a sign scolds lobbyists who want to buy his vote. He blasted his party for this year's transportation bill. "Do I play the old system of bringing home a little money and expecting everyone to fall at my feet and declare me savior?" he asks. "No. I seek...
Accommodations: Extra-long mattress, goose-down pillows or hypo-allergenic pillows, mini bar, hand milled soap, luxury bathroom including bath gel and moisturizing lotion...
These are nutty days on Wall Street, and you can hardly be blamed for thinking about shifting your investments into something safe, like a money-market fund--if not the mattress. The esteemed Warren Buffett revealed last Monday that he had recently sold more than $5 billion in bonds. Presumably, that money is now parked somewhere secure while he hunts for bargains--if he hasn't already found them in the wake of last Tuesday's stock-market dive. Bully for him. But remember that he's a billionaire investment god. Mere mortals don't have his eye for value...