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Each September, undergraduates throng to Tercentenary Theatre to peruse the vast array of student groups at Harvard. A quick survey of the various booths, tables and displays reveals a number of thriving religious groups, with organizations like the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and Harvard Hillel boasting membership rosters in excess of 150 students...
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...
Such pampering is what attracted Bob and Diane Mitchell, a retired Michigan businessman and teacher, respectively, to Exclusive Resorts. In 2003, after selling a family-owned manufacturing business, they paid an initial membership fee of $100,000, and for $24,000 in dues each year, they stay in any combination of more than 2,500 luxury homes for up to 60 days. With Exclusive Resorts, unlike the time-share model, if they decide to cancel their membership, 80% of their initial deposit is returned. Since the Mitchells travel most of the year, their per-day costs are often less than...
...response to this week’s events, The Daily has formed a committee—whose membership includes the heads of The Daily’s content boards—to address the paper’s plagiarism-prevention policies, Stampfl said...
...Indonesian, as opposed to the normal Arabic. In West Java, three women are serving three-year prison terms for running Christian kindergarten classes also attended by Muslim children. "Sometimes we have to defend the community's morality by force," says Sobri Lubis, spokesman for the Islamic Defenders Front (claimed membership: 5 million), which has carried out thuggish antivice raids on Jakarta nightclubs and whose spiritual leader Habib Rizieq said last November that assassinating U.S. President George W. Bush was religiously permissible. "If a soldier kills his enemy," says Lubis, "would you call that violence...