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...serious bad-ass and kind of scary,” says a regular, “but it’s a cool class.” Boston Sports Club has new facilities, a huge weight-room selection and built-in personal cable TVs. The biggest perk, though, is using your membership freely at all Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington locations...
Meanwhile, the global economy should start to perk up now that companies around the world have used three lean years to shed fat and restructure. Foreign stocks were hit harder and are cheaper relative to earnings potential than stocks in the U.S. "The U.S. has to turn first," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, because it remains the world's leading economy. "But then Europe and Asia will move further, faster," he predicts. His favorite regions are parts of Europe--notably Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands--Hong Kong and South Korea, and emerging markets Thailand, Malaysia...
...this day, the ears of Molly M. Simmons ’05 perk up whenever the Naval Academy is mentioned. In June of her senior year, Simmons was all set to enlist. The papers were signed and the Academy had a spot reserved for her. For Simmons, whose father and two sisters are all Harvard alumni, it would have been a huge departure from family tradition. At the last minute—two weeks before she was scheduled to leave for Annapolis—Simmons changed her mind, trading in her regulation blues for bright crimson...
...trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
...even Dunay’s game face can’t stick forever. Sometimes, the first-year, who says he “tries to be calculating,” will let slip what cards are in his hand. The corners of his lips perk into a smile, and he becomes sheepish as he speaks like the politician he knows he is. “A politician tries to give as little information as possible and tries to appeal to everyone without upsetting anyone,” he says. “That probably relates...