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...dynamiting the Hejaz Railway, which was built by the Ottoman Turks to carry Muslim pilgrims from Syria to holy sites and act as a supply route. But one 320-km stretch is still intact, and several times a week you can take the journey between Damascus and Amman, Jordan (minimum duration is seven hours), passing sites that would have been familiar to Lawrence. Sitting in the sidings at Amman station are coaches recognizable from the era. In its heyday, the train carried up to 300,000 pilgrims to the annual Hajj in Mecca; now only a few passengers make...
...customer base for this incarnation of sex show, according to Shamrock co-owner John, is blue-collar America, “anything from someone who works for Best Buy to someone who owns a construction company.” College students, with less cash to handle the minimum fee of over $100, don’t make up that much business except during fraternity rush season. And even then, college students tip less, according to the women. That segment of business comes from campuses like MIT, Tufts, Bentley, Boston University, and even Wellesley. Providing just eight or ten jobs...
...support giving individual departments power over which courses will count for gen-ed credit, we also believe that students should take at least one HCC in their two required areas. Ideally, these courses would be so intellectually stimulating that students would want to take more than just the bare minimum...
Senior Gift’s recruitment apparatus has two arms: one that pursues donations of a minimum $10, and another that asks for a minimum $250. Like any good fundraising program, Senior Gift grants higher-level donors an honorific—Associates...
Meanwhile, the sense of wealth that President George W. Bush's tax cuts engendered has been overdone. Some of the savings have been offset by rising state and local taxes and fees. And if you pay the alternative minimum tax, which is rapidly encroaching on the middle class, say goodbye to a big chunk of your federal tax savings...