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...usually controversial only for the students who have to do it. But this summer the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which customarily assigns a book to its incoming freshmen, chose Approaching the Qur'an, a set of heavily annotated excerpts from the Muslim Holy Writ. Chancellor James Moeser reportedly asked his trustees, "What could be more timely?" And what could be more predictable than the brouhaha that followed: the rumbling overture on Christian websites; the brassy solo by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, who compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf...
Fortunately for sellers, a lot of people with money are warming to island retreats. Bigelow's marketer, Rick Moeser, senior vice president of Sotheby's International in Palm Beach, Fla., says inquiries about the private islands he brokers have doubled since Sept. 11, to about eight a month. He unabashedly trumpets the islands' "privacy, seclusion--and safety." Bahamas Realty, one of that country's largest island brokers, reports a 25% jump this autumn in calls about its properties. "I get the sense," says George Damianos of Damianos Realty, another major Bahamas island agent, "that prospective buyers have decided there...
...after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like fir-forested, 2-acre Nubble for as little...
Despite the steady influx of new players, one factor will remain constant--coach Harry Parker, who has led the team since 1962 and who, in the eyes of Moeser, is a "legend...
While a great work ethic is always the rule, said senior Matthew Moeser, "this was our best winter of training." Such preparation, when combined with the team's success during Head of the Charles and Tail of the Charles races last fall, certainly bodes well for the team's prospects this spring...