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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...
...schedule—Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 has started the past two seasons with a platoon in net—but sooner or later, Tobe has found himself sitting on the bench.“My junior year, my second year here [after transferring from Michigan State], was a bit of a disappointment in terms of not playing a lot,” he recalls. “And this year’s been a little bit more frustrating because I think I played pretty well when I played at the beginning of the year...
...Michigan Daily’s editors found instances of plagiarism in four articles written by Michigan undergraduate Devika R. Daga, according to a letter from The Daily’s editor-in-chief, Karl A. Stampfl...
...said. While Harvard and Yale have the largest endowments of any private institutions in the United States or world, the University of Texas system has the largest endowment among public universities with $11.6 billion in savings, followed by the University of California with $5.7 billion and the University of Michigan with $5.6 billion, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers...
Even Jesse Jackson, who is often viewed as a polarizing figure, transcended the racial divide with his stunning upset of Michael Dukakis in the 1988 Michigan caucus. Not only did he win landslide victories in Detroit, but he also drew a surprising measure of white support in the Upper Peninsula, and in cities like Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw. Like Patrick and Obama, Jackson’s popularity was based on the broad appeal of his message, which focused on jobs, a higher minimum wage, education, housing, and day care for working women. These examples reveal that black candidates...