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...Colleagues say the past three years have been the "peak" of Gutmann's professional achievement, and that despite her earlier decision to leave administration, she's ready for another...
...high-priced luxuries Honolulu has to offer, don't forget that many of the city's most endearing attractions cost nothing at all. Take an early-morning hike up Diamond Head, for example, the iconic volcanic peak east of town. Or catch the free Kodak Hula Show at Kapiolani Park, a fun 63-year-old institution recently saved from extinction by the charitable Hogan Family Foundation. And whatever your budget, generous portions of sun, sand and surf are free for all along the seductively kitschy, crowded shores of Waikiki...
...rapists and the beater of a small child. But the Connally Seven had chosen a spectacular hideaway after one of them allegedly shot a policeman 11 times in Irving, Texas. The RV site was perched high above Woodland Park, with a postcard view of the northeast face of Pikes Peak fading and reappearing behind blowing snow and scuttling clouds. The fugitives had been there for three weeks, paid cash, received no mail...
...Nonetheless, Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong (Oxford University Press; 298 pages), an oral history by May Holdsworth, isn't all eulogy. Rather than confine herself to the classic expats?the "merchants, ministers and mandarins," in her own phrase?Holdsworth casts her net beyond the Peak and allows her subjects to tell how radically expatriate Hong Kong changed, especially in the last 20 years of British rule. That was when a new class of expat arrived?lawyers, bankers, restaurateurs?who helped transform a far-flung colony into a cosmopolitan business center...
...Santa Clara-based DSL provider Covad soldiered on without its cubicle heaters. But not everyone coped with equal aplomb: employees at Keen.com in San Francisco were said by their p.r. rep to be "frothing at the mouth" at the possibility that their Ping-Pong tournament, needing optimal lighting for peak performance, might be postponed by power cuts. Some activities are still sacred after...