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Many couples opt for locations that not only are congenial to a ceremony but also offer opportunities to golf, fish, indulge in a spa treatment or explore another culture. Avid scuba divers Stephanie Dowling, 29, and Chad Eschmeyer, 28, of Scottsdale, Ariz., plan for their May 2004 wedding in the Virgin Islands to include a day of snorkeling and diving. They originally anticipated 15 guests. Now 50 guests, many of them fellow divers, are scheduled to stay in a resort the couple selected over the Internet for a week of activities, including celebrations of Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican festival...
...your credit card, you get put on hold and pummeled with ads for the bank and its marketing "partners," who know that you know that if you hang up, you lose your place in the telephonic queue. "The base appeal of this trend is that the audience can't opt out," says Dennis Roche, 37, U.S. president of Zoom Media, based in Montreal, which places ads in bathrooms...
...Dudley Co-op is an elective program that houses 32 undergraduates and falls under the umbrella of Dudley House, which provides tutors and other resources for students who opt out of the traditional House system. Interested students must interview with Assistant Senior Tutor Kristin Scheible and eat a meal in the Co-op to get a sense of the “experience.” If they are still interested, then their names are placed on a rolling wait list. Although there seems to be more interest than available spaces, College Housing Officer David Woodberry notes that prospective...
...seems like [the event] could be trivializing to people who have daily experiences with gender dysphoria.” Given the absence of a transgender or transsexual visibility on campus, she says, the occasional occurrence of cross-dressing as a staged spectacle seems to disrespect people who opt to live differently-gendered...
...thinking. That's way too far left. What could Sawat, a village girl from northeastern Buriram province, know about putting? Caddies are mandatory in Thailand even if you opt for a golf cart, and I am happy for the assistance, but what I really need is a grizzled expert, not a polite servant. A two-stroke penalty for that line of thought: my putt curves like she said it would and plops in for a bogey, matching the Japanese who three-putt. As I learn on ensuing holes, Sawat knows what clubs to select, measures distances like a surveyor...