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...unexpected like “streaking [through] Quincy dining hall...at 3 am.” Next year she will “save the world, one crazy person at a time” as she works toward becoming a psychologist. Brandolini d’Adda claims her peak was Pre-frosh weekend 2003, but FM thinks the best is yet to come...
...crop falls into three distinct categories. First, there are the prime-timers - Boston's David "Big Papi" Ortiz and Travis Hafner of the Cleveland Indians, who are both DH-ing at the peak of their careers. "Ortiz and Hafner are two of the best four hitters in baseball right now, by any standard that's valid," says Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro. It's hard to argue with him - Hafner, 29, hit .308 with 42 homers in 2006, and Ortiz, 31, not only led the American League with 54 home runs last season, but is by far the best clutch...
...paychecks remained large enough to attract criticism though, and even as Silverman steered Cendant to a profit peak of $2 billion in 2004, investors were unimpressed. So he heeded their grumbling and broke up the company. The hotels became Wyndham Worldwide, rental cars the Avis Budget Group, travel distribution (Orbitz, Galileo) Travelport, and real estate Realogy. Blackstone bought Travelport last year, and now Realogy belongs to Apollo...
...easier to reach than you'd think. From Marrakech, it's a mere 90-minute drive up a winding valley road to the Toubkal National Park. Before you know it, you're sipping mint tea atop a sun-drenched terrace ogling the Djebel Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak...
...peak baggers wanting to summit, overnight treks can be arranged up the Djebel Toubkal. On our final day we opted for an easier vista onto a vast mountain desert bowl, before returning to lunch at Samra, a candlelit guest douar (Berber dwelling) run by an energetic Swiss woman and a local female staff. The vegetable tagine and coriander-spiced eggplant was outstanding. Six hours later, I was back in Paris, my boots still spattered with mud, my hands smelling faintly of rose water...