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Please don’t get me wrong: I’ll opt for watching the NFL over criticizing the CIA, any day. It is interesting, however, how quickly and totally we have moved on. Sure, we’ll remember the attacks on Sept. 11 itself, aided by nauseatingly glossy, sanitized television documentaries. But should we feel guilty for forgetting it in our everyday lives? Should we be thinking about what TV grandly styled the “Attack on America” while we’re en route to class or driving along the New Jersey Turnpike...
Paku said he understood why Harvard would opt for the seemingly unconventional investment...
...France's best and brightest. As of 2005, the school will close its Paris campus for everything but continuing education and concentrate its activities at its Strasbourg headquarters. While the school will still rank students, they will no longer all be bound to the same curriculum - instead they can opt for specializations - and everyone will be expected to intern in a business setting rather than exclusively in government. What's more, Public Service Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye has proposed measures to make it easier for the state to hire bureaucrats from the private sector. Next year, he announced, the government...
...says restaurant consultant Ron Paul. That's why Earl is adding a new mother ship: a Las Vegas resort with 2,567 hotel rooms and a 7,000-seat theater. Much of his $30 million movie-memorabilia collection will be used in the Starwood-run hotel, where guests can opt to sleep on Austin Powers' shagadelic revolving mattress or Sharon Stone's bed from Basic Instinct. ("With ice pick available on request," Earl says...
Next month, mfafirstfriday will feature the music of the Andy Baer Jazz Ensemble, and the December 5th event will host the Jim Porcella Jazz/Swing Ensemble. Anyone seeking a change from the down-and-dirty Boston bar scene may want to opt for a classier way to start out their nights the first Friday of each month—and lucky singles may even find a new someone to join them for other late-night festivities...