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...overnight pit stop at a forgettable (and decidedly déclassé) airport hotel used to be one of the banes of the road warrior's life. No longer. The hotel industry's burgeoning emphasis on design includes airport properties, many of which are starting to boast the upgraded amenities and modish trappings of their downtown cousins. Say goodbye to poky rooms and drab lobbies, and luxuriate in slick digs like the striking Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich, tel: (49-89) 97820, pictured above. Below are some of our other layover favorites...
...just Truth, but Truth for Christ and Church.What exactly happened to “Church”? And where did Christ go? It used to be that Harvard had only one business—training young men for deployment into the ministry. And it wasn’t overnight that it transformed into the famously secular research university we know today. Rather, the movement gathered momentum gradually, propelled by intellectual leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia...
...would be naive to think that India has shed its Hindu chauvinism overnight. After the latest attack, former BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani announced he would he embarking on a "yatra," a cross between a march and a pilgrimage, to protest the pandering to "minorities" - meaning Muslims - that he said had led to the bombings. Moreover, as relations with Pakistan warm, India's nationalist hawks are all too eager to find another "anti-India" bogeyman in the rising Islamic fundamentalist movement in India's its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Nor is the absence of a riot much to celebrate...
...Waitresses at Cambridge, 1, located next door to the soon-to-be ice cream store, complained that throwing away their trash has become an arduous task since the space next to them was occupied. They used to leave garbage bags in front of the empty storefront overnight and the garbage collectors would pick them up in the morning. “Now we have to run out when the trash car comes in the morning,” said Sonja Totten-Harris ’04. In addition, she is a little worried that customers will choose...
...homeless population found 36 people sleeping on the city’s streets on the night of Jan. 23, five fewer than last year’s count. Staff from the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation (CASPAR), which operates Cambridge’s only overnight emergency shelter for those under the influence of drugs and alcohol, conducted the city’s street census for the seventh year in a row. The census, which combines information from the street count with information supplied by homelessness service providers, counted 445 homeless people in the city, according...