Word: meccas
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...Harvard hopes that this strong schedule will help counter the fact that the Orange is making its 24th straight tournament appearance—the Orangemen are have won eight titles overall, the last championship coming just two years ago.“That’s the Mecca of lacrosse, at least north of the Mason-Dixon line,” senior attackman Steve Cohen said. “That’d be the team you’d want to play, and where you’d want to play.”It’s been...
...Syracuse, it’s like the mecca of lacrosse up there,” co-captain Jake Samuelson said. “We’re excited because if we could’ve played anyone, this is who we really wanted...
Indeed, it was serendipity that brought Cieplak-von Baldegg to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival—the Mecca for experimental performance art—where she did a video installation for a performance piece. She had received a grant for film work in France, but used the money to go to Scotland instead when she found some of her best friends would be performing at the Festival...
John Mackey fits the profile of a typical green-friendly liberal. He is a vegan, practices yoga, and wears hiking boots to work. Behold the founder and CEO of Whole Foods, Mecca for believers in organic foods, which was recently recognized as one of America’s most valuable companies according to BusinessWeek Magazine (and its stock multiple has at times surpassed even Google’s). But principles still come before profits in this natural food empire: Five percent of profits are donated to local communities and environmental causes; stockholders are given third priority behind customers and employees...
...This spring-break mecca is still pocked by the effects of Hurricane Wilma, the Category 4 that hit last October. Hotel towers stand dark, their windows blown out. The President, his senior staff and the rotating pool of reporters that stays close to him bunked at the Le Blanc, but the majority of the press was 20 miles away at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort, where reporters paid $360 a night for rooms that included a whirlpool with a family-size bottle of bubble bath. The property is so massive that I was in ?Edifico 23,? part...